Housing and housing needs in transition

  • Neighborhoods and living together
  • Living in the second half of life
  • Effects of migration movements
  • Innovative forms of housing

Inclusion in the neighbourhood

The project examines neighbourly relations and opportunities for interaction in the immediate living environment. Read more

Generational living in a long-term perspective - from intention to lived implementation

The research project examines generational housing projects in a long-​term perspective. Read more

SYSE: System and Series

System and Series. Swiss System Buildings between Social Utopia, Pressure of use and Monument Conservation

The testimonial value of modular building systems as a post-war "social project" is often neglected. Read more

HERA PuSH Public Space in European Social Housing

HERA PuSH Public Space in European Social Housing

PuSH, a large, innovative European research project, has achieved funding from the EU HERA programme Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe (2019–2022). Read more

Geographies of Age. Older people’s access to housing and to urban life

Geographien des Alters. Zugang älterer Menschen zu Wohnraum und städtischem Leben

The ultimate goal of the comparative research project is to propose options and requirements for the public policy of the cities as well as actors on the housing market to support and enhance age-friendly urban environments and to prevent exclusion from social life and loneliness. Read more

Micro Living / Cluster Living

Micro Living / Cluster Living

Evaluation of housing concepts for micro households as a model for sustainable urban development
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Housing: barrier free access - social - safe

Wohnen: barrierefrei – sozial – sicher

Feasibility study in the Liechtenstein municipalities of Triesenberg, Triesen, Schellenberg and Vaduz in cooperation with Sano AG Read more

Ageing in Place

Ageing in Place

Challenges and Opportunities at the Interface between Housing Management and Residents. Read more

Injecting new impetuses into sustainable housing

Injecting new impetuses into sustainable housing

Innovative processes and projects in the housing sector Read more

Cooperative housing in the second half of life

Gemeinschaftliche Wohnformen in der zweiten Lebenshälfte

Survey and Examples in the Canton of Zurich Read more

Multilocal Living Arrangements in Switzerland

Multilocal Living Arrangements in Switzerland

Mobility in the interplay of material, social and biographical conditions Read more

On the Career of the Postwar Swiss Construction Boom

Zur Karriere des Baubooms

House-biographies of large housing complexes from the period between 1950 and 1980 Read more

Prototyp II - Repräsentationen von Möbeln in Design und Kunst

Prototyp II - Repräsentationen von Möbeln in Design und Kunst

Aktuelle Präsentationsformen und die Rezeption von Möbeln in Design und Kunst Read more

On the Career of Durability

On the Career of Durability

House-Biographies of Highly Appreciated Residential Buildings (1900 – now) Read more

Avantage - Housing in Wettsteinpark, Basel

Avantage - Wohnen im Wettsteinpark, Basel

Three private foundations who are all concerned with the questions of housing for the elderly have joined forces in the context of a new housing project in Basel. Read more

Multilocal living between mobility and settledness

Multilokales Wohnen zwischen Mobilität und Sesshaftigkeit

People in a multilocally organized everyday Read more

New Approaches to Housing for the 50+ Generations

Neue Wohnmodelle für die zweite Lebenshälfte

Innovations on Housing in the Second Half of Life Read more

Nachhaltige Entwicklung - illustriert am Beispiel Bauen und Wohnen mit Holz

Nachhaltige Entwicklung - illustriert am Beispiel Bauen und Wohnen mit Holz

Interdisziplinär anwendbare Unterrichtsmaterialien. Read more

Immer mehr Licht?

Immer mehr Licht?

Über den Umgang mit Tageslicht im Wohnungsbau. Read more

Bauen und Wohnen mit Holz – ein Beitrag zu nachhaltiger Entwicklung

Bauen und Wohnen mit Holz – ein Beitrag zu nachhaltiger Entwicklung

Didaktische Materialien für die Sekundarschulstufe II. Read more

Housing Situation of Women in the Swiss German Part

Housing Situation of Women in the Swiss German Part

Housing and life biography of women of three generations Read more

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