Małgorzata Mader- Doctor of Engineering
- Professor (Assistant) at Lodz University of Technology
Małgorzata Mader
- Doctor of Engineering
- Professor (Assistant) at Lodz University of Technology
I research on building transformations and housing models in bottom-up intiatives for affordable housing.
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Introduction
My current research focuses on participatory and co-design in housing and its models in the Netherlands and Poland as well as building transformations and conservation. I am a PhD and a practitioner architect.
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Currently, approximately 4.4 billion people, accounting for 56% of the global population, live in cities. The expected growth of urban populations in the coming decades highlights the significance of research on sustainable development in urban areas and underscores the need to address the qualitative deficits in housing environments. While the pro...
The implementation of systems promoting production, streamlining construction, and consolidating design has diminished architects’ involvement in traditional housing processes. This paper focuses on analysing architects’ roles in Collective Private Commissioning (CPC) and Co-Commissioning (CC) as alternatives, and evaluating their strategies for mu...
Due to the shortage of houses and the rise of housing market prices in Amsterdam, there is a high demand for diversification means of getting a place to live. From the municipal policy and bottom-up engagement, the idea of DIY emerged-the process of involving future residents in existing housing transformation process, which would allow for low-cos...
This paper analysis the cases when city dwellers take matters into their own hands. It will briefly examine the informal and formal phenomena of bottom-up building of residential space in the city based on selected examples, with particular emphasis on housing cooperatives. The cohousing can assume an initiation and participation in the design and...
This paper invesigates methods and tools to support architecture design with VR. It is based on authors practise with 2 projects: Hembrug Terrein in Zaandam and Damen Shipyard in Amsterdam. It was a piece of a research project which was not realised, yet the presented piece may be an interesting case study.
The article raises an issue of post-industrial cities. Numerous of regions all over the world has been facing the problem of turning wasted structures inside urban tissue into livable areas, since the fall of industry. Trying to reuse existing architecture and to avoid its demolition, should be one of the main concerns while designing for the citie...
