July, 2023 - Plan Común has been invited to contribute to Plan Libre, architecture monthly journal edited by MBL Architectes and produced by Maison Architecture Occitanie. This issue is entitled ‘Slogans’ and includes contributions by diverse practitioners and researchers such as Philippe Rahm Architectes, Nicolas Dorval Bory, UR, Septembre and UHO among others.
ARQ 113 : CONDITIONS OF CHANGE / CONDICIONES DE CAMBIO
April, 2023 - Two recent transformation projects for Paris Habitat have been published in the last issue by ARQ Magazine entitled 'Conditions of Change'. The first one is the transformation of 'Tour des Poissonniers' into student housing and arts residence, a project developed along with 51n4e. The second one is the Transformation of 'Garage Haussmann' into collective housing.
Both projects propose a strategic transformation following the stance of doing 'more with less'.
Excerpt by the editor Stephannie Fell :
"If buildings are systems of layers occupying the same space at the same time —or for our purposes here, any conceptualization that asserts that they’re not static objects— the issue of change is not a question of when to get rid of them. Like Plan Común reminds us, the key to transformation is articulating both when and what to replace. In their two collective housing projects, this selective decision has a material underpinning —the need to improve circulation systems or replace decaying components— but also expounds a political will: to work with the identity and social fabric of historic and strategically- located architecture. By establishing scales of collective space in new “unit neighborhoods” (Poissonniers) or opening a courtyard at the center of a dense block (Garage Hausmann), both projects alter the experience of inhabiting a fragment of the city, beyond the confines of individual dwelling units."
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AUGURES - OIKOS - A HOUSE IN BETWEEN
July, 2022 - Launch of Augures, laboratoire des nouvelles pratiques publication compiling different contributions for the first edition of BAP! (exhibition that took place in Versailles in the spring of 2019). Our shared contribution with Kuehn Malvezzi is entitled ‘Oikos - A house in between’ and frames our role as practitioners within the fragmentation offered by the contemporary society and its processes. The book is distributed by Presses du réel.
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EU PAVILION
April, 2022 - Book launch of ‘EU Pavilion. Eight proposals for the first European pavilion at the Venice Biennale’ co-edited by Anna Livia Friel and Marco Provinciali (Supervoid). Contributions by: Armature Globale (IT), BB with Tomaso De Luca (IT/DE), Jasmina Cibic (SI/UK), Diogo Passarinho Studio (DE/PT), Plan Común (CL / FR), Something Fantastic (DE), TEN (CH/RS), Evita Vasiljeva (LV).
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CCA - INTERVIEWS
April, 2021 - The Canadian Centre for Architecture invited us to interview 5 practices in order to expand the discussion initiated with recent With and Within web issue and in The Things Around Us exhibition, focused on the role of architects and their relation to a broader understanding of context, their capacity to read and learn from local conditions, finding new spaces for design, particularly through the work of 51n4e and Rural Urban Framework.
We discussed with Lacol (SP), Umwelt (CL), REAL (UK), Rozana Montiel (MX) and Grand Huit (FR), to know more about their practice and understanding of concrete local conditions in relation to urgent global questions, like commons, housing and ecology.
The first article of the series entitled ‘The Architecture of Cooperation’ results from our conversation with Carles Baiges and Cristina Gamboa of Lacol.
The second article entitled ‘Working with Energy’ introduces our dialogue with Ignacio Garcia Partarrieu and Arturo Scheidegger of Umwelt.
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Go to ‘Building Narratives’ (with Rozana Montiel)
Go to ‘An Ethical Real Estate Project’ (with Jack Self)
Go to ‘Circular and Solidarity-based Construction’ (with Grand Huit)
TOPOGRAPHIE(S) ARTIFICIELLE(S)
Chantiers Partagés
Gare de Clichy-Montfermeil
Topographie(s) Artificielle(s)
Projet mené dans le cadre des Chantiers Partagés, imaginés pour accompagner les travaux du nouveau métro. Une commande de la Société du Grand Paris, mise en œuvre par la direction artistique et culturelle du Grand Paris Express et portée par l’Ecole Nationale d’Architecture de Paris La Villette a l’initiative d’Edouard Ropars et Plan Común en étroite collaboration avec les Ateliers Médicis. La publication comprend une contribution de Galaad Van Daele, coéditeur du magazine d'architecture et d'art Accattone.
Design graphique : République Studio
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GRAM03 : EDITIONS QNDMC
April, 2021 - Plan Comun has been was featured in GRAM03 along with a series of practices including Stefano Corbo, Ultramoderne, Sauter von Moos, a practice. & Arrhov Frick. GRAM is a multiple research tool that combines graphic investigations with architectural explorations. It portrays the methods and processes of architecture offices throughout the length of ten emails. The outcomes are both theoretical and practical, and opens the doors to the endless thought processes behind the production of space.
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NESS.DOCS 2 : COMMON PLACES RESEARCH
‘Common Places’ Research was featured in NESS.docs 2, focused on the project of Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas, led by Charles Waldheim and the Office for Urbanization at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Curated by Flor Rodriguez, Mercedes Peralta and Jeannette Sordi. NESS.docs 2 explores the potentials for landscape as a medium for urban intervention in the specific contexts of Latin-American cities.
With contributions by : Ana Elvira Vélez Villa & Lorenzo Castro Jaramillo / Ana María Durán Calisto / Beals Lyon Arquitectos / Bulla / Camilo Restrepo / CAPA / Ciro Najle / Enlace Arquitectura / Fábrica de Paisaje / Francisco Walker Martínez / FUPAM / LUME, H+F Arquitetos / Metrópole Arquitetos & UNA Arquitetos / Gaeta Springall Arquitectos / Groundlab, LyonBosch+Martic, Idom & Sergio Chiquetto / Guillermo Hevia García & Nicolás Urzúa / Husos / Iñaki Echeverría Gutiérrez / Jeannette Sordi / José Alfredo Ramírez / Juan David Hoyos & Sebastián Monsalve / LCLA O ce / Luis Callejas / Manuel Gausa / Mercedes Peralta / Metro Arquitetos Associados / Opera Publica / Plan Común / Plan:B Arquitectos & JPRCR Arquitectos / RDR Arquitectos / Sérgio Bernardes / Tatiana Bilbao Estudio / Teresa Moller Landscape Studio
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MATERIA MAGAZINE #19
2020 - Kim Courrèges and Felipe De Ferrari contributed with an article for the nineteen issue of Chilean magazine Materia, edited by Gonzalo Carrasco. Entitled ‘Haciéndole consquillas al gigante. Restructurando el hiperrmercado’, the article is focused on the transformation towards commons of obsolete models such as the hypermarket.
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ARQ 104: LAWS / LEYES
A interview to Brandlhuber+ by Felipe De Ferrari has been published in ARQ 104. The interview consists in two parts from different times and with different interviewees. The first part was held in September 2015, between Felipe De Ferrari (FDF) and Arno Brandlhuber (AB), whereas the second part was conducted via email with Dorothee Hahn from the Brandlhuber+ team (DH/B+) exclusively for this issue of ARQ.
Abstract : Laws, codes and regulations usually seem to hinder architectural creativity. Yet, that’s not always the case. In more than twenty years of career, German architect Arno Brandlhuber has sought for ways in which law can be a trigger for architectural design. Through various collaborations, his practice Brandlhuber+ became one of the most forward thinking voices in the contemporary scene. This interview gives an insight into these ideas explaining how restrictions, commonly perceived as obstacles, can be at the basis of architectural strategies.
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ARCHITHESE - CIRCLES
Antenna Tower project designed along with Kuehn Malvezzi and Claudio Baladrón in Santiago (2014), has been included in the issue by Archithese focused on circles.
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ARQ 103 : ECOLOGY / ECOLOGÍA
The article ‘Architecture and ecology: Santiago’s Cementerio General as a case in point’ written by Wilfried Kuehn, Kim Courrèges and Felipe De Ferrari have been published in the last issue by ARQ Magazine. It introduces our research on the funerary complex and some guidelines for its transformation as a metropolitan garden.
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ARCHITHESE - CHILE
Felipe De Ferrari has been invited to both organize and participate in a panel discussion to reflect on the practice of architecture in Chile. Entitled ‘Architecture as a common field of knowledge’ the panel included Jørg Himmelreich (Archithese), Alejandra Celedón, Arturo Scheidegger & Ignacio García Partarrieu (Umwelt), Tomás Villalón and Francisco Díaz. The edited version of this dialogue is published in an issue focused on Chilean architecture by Swiss magazine Archithese.
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AA FILES 76 - KNOWLEDGE
Kim Courrèges and Felipe De Ferrari have been invited by Maria Giudici -current editor of AA Files- to write an article on ‘knowledge’. The article introduces a ‘Situation Room’, a dialogue by diverse authors who have not encountered one another.
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SAN ROCCO - LIFE AFTER DEATH
The last issue of San Rocco magazine is entitled ‘Death’ and includes an article focused on Cementerio General de Santiago and its potential as a metropolitan park by Wilfried Kuehn, Kim Courrèges and Felipe De Ferrari. This article is just another outcome of a long research led by Plan Común on this funerary complex since 2015.
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MOMENTUM #2
Kim Courrèges has been invited to write an article -Collective haven- in the second issue of the architectural magazine MOMENTUM, entitled Self, Shell, Shelter.
Excerpt of the article: “Each society deals with this enigma through a set of rituals–understood as sequences of actions involving specific gestures, words, objects, and people in a specific place– in order to honor, celebrate or remember the dead. Yet with time, people forget. These places of ritual tend to be neglected and fall into decay. However, cemeteries usually benefit from being situated in a valuable place in the city: they are essentially walled gardens, preserved from the city’s nuisances, with specific architectures and landscapes, offering a haven (of peace) for local fauna and people.”
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ARQ 98 - MASIVIDAD / MASSIVE
Felipe De Ferrari has been invited to write a review in the 98th issue of the architectural magazine ARQ, entitled Masividad / Massive. Entitled 'Outside the Box: On Dogmas, Property and Alternative Models' the short article is focused on Communal Villa, project by Dogma for Wohnungsfrage exhibition.
Excerpt of the review : “At times when a large portion of contemporary architecture has been able to represent and shape the neoliberal system (in many cases, even paying it homage), it is desirable that strategies based on alternative values proliferate. Not only to cover the historical debt with majorities but to expand the possibilities of architecture itself. As in the case of the rent subsidy or the celebrated Popular Real Estate Agency launched by the Municipality of Recoleta, the invitation is to think outside the box and scrutinize areas where the market operates poorly or does not operate at all because of lack of interest.6 This is how architecture will become political and, hopefully, emancipatory.”
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ARCHITECTURE CREE N.383
The research ‘Common Places: 45 Strategies for public space’ is featured on the French magazine ‘Architectures Cree’, October / November 2017.
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RURAL SOCIAL HOUSING
Our prototype of rural social housing for Los Ríos Region - one of the rainiest regions in all Chile -, which includes an extra covered space for different uses was included in the book edited by Felipe Grallert and published by Ediciones ARQ.
The book includes proposals by 10 Chilean practices: Beals Lyon, Romero Silva, Nicolás del Río | DRAA, Tomás Villalón, Juan Agustín Soza, Emilio Marín - Juan Carlos Lopez, Ortúzar Gebauer, Juan Pablo Corvalán, Plan Común & Umwelt.
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FARAWAY, SO CLOSE
Our project ‘Common Places : Micro-interventions in Nove Fuzine’ is included in ‘Faraway, So Close’, the catalogue of BIO 25 -curated by Maja Varjdan and Angela Rui-, published by Motto. Two plinths were used as a exhibition device for the installation ‘Exploring Dead Buildings 3.0’ by Didier Fiúza Faustino in the context of ‘Brand new coexistence’ issue on the Biennial.