Baugruppen: the German model of cohousing and its constitutive variables

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Keywords:

Baugruppen, Germany, Neoliberalism, Co-housing, Information construction

Abstract

This article aims to discuss what are the constitutive variables that make up the housing mobilization entitled Baugruppen (in English, Building Groups), in Germany. The idea is to analyze three fundamental variables that are present in Baugruppen, including social, financial and organizational - through websites, and the state, in the light of the understanding of neoliberalism that commodifies and generates the financialization of dwelling, logic that generates crises and feeds on them. The aim of the Baugruppen is to suppress the existence of an agent that profits from housing construction, as is the case of homebuilders and developers, and thus reduce the price of housing by 25% to 35% of the value of the traditional market. However, it is extremely important to understand that this is a housing mobilization that only develops and can spread through specialized websites and the construction of information on the Internet. The expectation is to be able to better understand how the stakeholders of this mobilization work and what are the future perspectives for this housing and city thinking.

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Author Biographies

Anie Figueira, Federal University of Bahia

She is an Architect and Urbanist, holds a Master's degree in Building Planning Design, and is a Specialist in Urban and Sustainable Architectural Rehabilitation. She is a researcher of the research group "Design, Planning and Landscape" of the National University of Brasilia, connected to the Labeurbe group of the same university, and the "Chronology of Urban Thinking" research group of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.

Ricardo Trevisan, National University of Brasilia

He is an Architect and Urbanist and Ph.D. in Architecture and Urbanism, with postdoctoral studies at Columbia University. He is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the National University of Brasilia, and a researcher at the research groups “Landscape, Design, and Planning - Labeurbe” and “Architecture and Urbanism of the Brasilia Region”. He is the local director of the “Chronology of Urban Planning Project", with the “New Cities: Thinking for Atlas Project”.

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Published

2019-12-13

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 19 (2019): V!19 The Construction of Information

Section

Ágora