July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
6h 56m
English
designers | inventors | systems + processes | new material flows | facilitating circular systems
Rotterdam-based Superuse’s original name, 2012 Architects, came about because some of the founder members of the studio (including Jan Jongert) were living in a street where 18 houses were planned to be demolished. Jongert and his colleagues proposed an alternative vision that preserved all the houses, but rather audaciously asked the municipality to lend them the houses for 15 years, until 2012. The community renovated the houses and when 15 years had passed they were able to buy them from the municipality at affordable rates: a positive tale of social sustainability.
The current name, Superuse, ...