Projects of various sizes, scales and clients: the building association, the cooperative, the investor and the municipal housing association. We are concerned with concepts of living and a fascination for the city, space and housing. Building land is a valuable, communal resource and we have to ask ourselves how we can conserve land and public open space. How can urbanity with all its challenges – high population density, sufficient light and air, the desire for privacy despite urban density – become sustainably liveable? What value can an urban leftover area have as a place for the urban community? How should architecture appropriately respond to the urban context? Where must the new have to be subordinate, but where does it independently create a new identity and centre? How does the ground floor connect with the intermediate space? How does it shape the atmosphere of the place? How can the right balance be achieved in housing through flexible overlays of use and different types of apartments?

It is important to us to create democratic meeting spaces – with people, for people.

We can only agree with him, for our society is currently still closer in time to nomadic than to settled life. zillerplus wants to push new thinking in housing: where will we live in the future, even if only temporarily? Our office wants to pave the way for new, flexible living configurations. Flexibility here stands not just for generational living but also for typology, spatial design and district structure. To make this possible, alternative financing and support schemes have to be developed for new renting and sharing strategies – for the benefit of a lively city for all!