May, 2020 - Felipe De Ferrari was invited by Ignacio Montaldo (founder of Moarqs) to give a conference in the context of ‘Taller Soler’ at FADU UBA, Argentina.
UCLA - Drawing things together
May, 2020 - Kim Courrèges and Felipe De Ferrari introduced the work by Plan Común in the context of ‘Drawing things together’ seminar led by Cristóbal Amunátegui at UCLA.
'ZAC de Moulon – Lot NE31'
April, 2020 - We are shortlisted along with Seyler & Lucan -and a team including EVP, VPEAS, Atelier Volga and WOR Ingénierie- for a competition organized by EPA Paris-Saclay to design two collective housing buildings in one of the plots of ‘ZAC de Moulon’, Paris-Saclay, France.
For more information :
Go to EPA Paris-Saclay
Ecovillage Hannover competition
March, 2020 - We are shortlisted along with ISSS -led by Ingrid Sabatier and Stephan Schwarz- for ‘Ecovillage Hannover’ competition. The goal is to design a whole neighbourhood of 500 apartments / houses and collective facilities in the outskirts of Hannover, Germany.
For more information :
Go to Ecovillage Hannover
CCA - My Invisible Friend
Plan Común has been invited to participate in ‘My Invisible Friend’ series of lectures held at Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). Curated by Lev Bratishenko, ‘My Invisible Friend’ invites authors to present projects made with non-architects and to reveal the invisible friends without whom their work would be impossible. Each speaker completes three tasks:
1: Tell the story of a decisive encounter with a figure from outside architecture and of how it created a new kind of practice.
2: Pick any dead or fictional non-architect to collaborate with, and explain why.
3: Pick another contemporary architect and a collaborator to inflict upon them, and explain why.
For more information :
Go to Canadian Centre for Architecture
TRIENNALE MILANO / The State of Art of Architecture
Plan Común has been invited to participate in ‘The State of Art of Architecture Milano’ exhibition held at Triennale Milano until March 29th, 2020. The name refers to a conference held in 1977 at the Graham Foundation that was curated by Stanley Tigerman, who has been an important instigator and educator, as well as architect, on the Chicago scene since the 1970s. The first edition of this exhibition, curated by both Sarah Herda and Joseph Grima was held in the context of Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2015.
From the curator: The State of the Art of Architecture Milano is intended to be an invitation to reflect on the creation of new forms of contemporary architectural thought, through the involvement of 38 innovative and emergent architecture studios and researchers. The exhibition is intended to be an invitation to reflect on the creation of new forms of contemporary architectural thought, focusing on future generations in order to understand current lines of development and new directions in design.
Curated by: Joseph Grima
Projects by: (ab)Normal; Adjustments Agency; APPARATA; Bollería Industrial; Center for Spatial Technologies; DOMA; feminist architecture collaborative; Fosbury Architecture; Fru*Fru; GAFPA; Heat Island; Ibiye Camp; KOSMOS; Mae-Ling Lokko; Marjan van Aubel; Mathieu Bujnowskyj, Titouan Chapouly (Hutte.xyz); MBL Architectes; Michaela Büsse; MILLIØNS; Nashin Mahtani; NM3; OASI; Olivia Page; OMMX; Parasite 2.0; Pedro Pitarch; Plan Comun; PLSTCT; REAL; Rebediani Scaccabarozzi Paesaggisti; Romina Grillo Liviu Vasiu; Something Fantastic; Studio GISTO; Studio Ossidiana; Supervoid; The Decorators; Traumnovelle; Trees.
For more information :
Go to Triennale Milano
MOB Projects - Domestic Essays / Ensaios Domésticos
11.10 _ 19h00
Carpintarias de São Lázaro
Rua de São Lázaro 7
Lisboa - Portugal
Plan Común will participate in ‘Domestic Essays’, exhibition of a furniture collection by MOB Projects in the context of Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Our contribution is ‘Bisagra’ a polymorphic device for domestic and work environments, a galvanized steel structure composed by 5 frames of 50x190x10cm.
Other participants include Bast (FR), Maio Architect (ES), Fala Atelier (PT), Sami Arquitectos (PT), Fernanda Fragateiro (PT), Boris Gusic + Lucio Crignola (CH), Aprdelesp (MX), Benjamin Ossa (CL), Martinez Barat Lafore (FR), Javier Toro Blum (CL), Alejandra Prieto (CL), Ivan Navarro + Courtney Smith (US/CL), Nicolás Aracena (CL)
Excerpt by the curators: “In an attempt to make architecture and art a shareable and comprehensible language, the scale of the furniture appears as a common ground of research, criticism and experimentation for new practices, which through a tactile and close scale, generate a series of questions around the interior space and the relation of the objects with the common world and the domestic user. Through rationality we can reach a contemporary interpretation of the world and build a theory of society, being this project a tool for reaching in a domestic way those objectives, exploring the closest scale between its creators and people.”
For more information :
Go to MOB
Go to TAL
Campo Comum - Conference Program 2020-2022
Felipe De Ferrari will co-direct the Conference Program by Lisbon Architecture Triennale and Garagem Sul | Exposições de Arquitetura, do Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), along with Diana Menino, for the next 3 years (2020-2022). The proposal entitled 'Campo Comum' was selected among 26 applications arriving from 11 different countries by a jury composed of José Mateus, Manuel Henriques, Madalena Reis, André Tavares and Irina Davidovici.
Excerpt : “Architecture must be understood as a strategic attitude regarding space and resources. Common Field aims to discuss architecture in its most literal meaning: a collective and strategic knowledge that is and could be applied by everyone, in any community, environment or culture, through a series of mechanisms, devices, structures and forms. To build up a Common Field requires to assess the idea of common sense, a critical concept in the present context of global neoliberalisation and political decay. Hence, we claim for a a critical and optimistic attitude towards physical and cultural contexts, policies, briefs and clients, architecture can appropriate reality, in radical and unexpected ways from research to construction —, making visible its potential and contradictions, developing projects that enable emancipatory ideas, thus building as a common field.”
For more information :
Go to TAL
'Garage Citroen' Competition
We are shortlisted along with Bast -and a team including EVP, Oxalis, Lab ingénierie, Mobius and Vpeas- for the transformation of ‘Garage Citroen’ into an student housing- including 60 apartments, 4000 m² of workshops and 1000 m² of commercial stores-. The competition is organized by RIVP.
For more information :
Go to RIVP
'St. Vincent de Paul' Competition
We are shortlisted along with Kuehn Malvezzi, Nicolas Dorval Bory and a strong team -including Vogt, Bollinger Grohmann, Inex, Vpeas and Lab Ingenierie- for a competition organized by RIVP to introduce 185 apartments and workshops in one of the plots of St. Vincent de Paul health complex in Paris, France.
For more information :
Go to Les Grand Voisins
Zagreb School of Architecture
Felipe De Ferrari was invited to give a lecture and to participate in a special review at Zagreb School of Architecture.
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'Logics of innovation and change'
Felipe De Ferrari was invited to participate in the congress entitled ‘Logics of innovation and change’ held at Barcelona Building Construmat 2019. Curated by Ricardo Devesa, the congress included presentations by a diverse set of authors such as Emilio Santiago Muiño, Ingrid Guardiola, Harquitectes, Studio Muoto, Ibai Rigby, Flexo Arquitectura and Lateral Office among others.
For more information :
Go to Construmat website
Final Review at ETH MAS Urban Design
Kim Courrèges was invited to participate in the final review of ‘Inclusive Urbanism: Marseille’ directed by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Something Fantastic in the MAS Urban Design (Chair of Marc Angélil) at ETH Zürich. Other guests included Anne Lacaton (Lacaton & Vassal), Nicolas Memain and Sascha Delz.
For more information:
Go to MAS Urban Design website
BAP! - Biennale d'architecture et paysage
Plan Comun is invited by Kuehn Malvezzi to participate in the first edition of BAP! Biennale d’architecture et de paysage, organized by Région Île-de-France in Versailles. Curated by French architect and urbanist Djamel Klouche, ‘Augures’ is understood as a laboratory for new architectural practices and will be held at École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles, from May 3rd to July 13th.
For more information :
Go to BAP-IDF website
Common Places at Kolektiv Gallery
44 strategies for collective spaces are currently exhibited at Kolektiv Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia (April 1st-15th). The display is a plinth of 7.5m x 1m x 0.38m made by siporex concrete blocks donated by Y-tong.
Contributions by: Felipe De Ferrari (CL), Kim Courreges (FR), Thomas Batzenschlager (FR), Diego Grass (CL), Marcelo Cox (CL), Jose Lemaitre (CL), Oliver Burch (CH), Costanza Zeni (IT), Jules Salmon (FR), Kotaro Shimada (JP), Pedro Correa (CL), Cristian Valenzuela (CL), Pedro Hoffmann (CL), Luca Magagni (IT), Osvaldo Larraín (CL), Eduardo Corales (CL), Ciro Miguel (BR), Bruna Canepa (BR), Hamed Khosravi (Behemoth, IR), Arturo Scheidegger & Ignacio Garcia Partarrieu (Umwelt, CL), Cruz García & Nathalie Frankowski (Wai Think Tank, CR / FR), Miles Gertler (CA), Erica Chladová and Robert van der Pol (Liminal Office, NL), Javiera Jadue & Paula Livingstone (CL), Tomás Tironi & Christian Bartlau (CL), Cristóbal Amunátegui & Alejandro Valdés (CL), Benjamin Gallegos Gabilondo (CL), Grupo Toma (CL), Fosbury Architecture (IT), Sebastian Paredes (CL), Felipe Grallert (CL).
In the context of the exhibition Kim Courrèges & Felipe De Ferrari did a lecture entitled ‘The Practice as a Project’, introducing the last 6 years of work at Plan Común.
For more information:
Go to Kolektiv Gallery
Go to Radio Aparat
Chilean Architecture as a common field of knowledge
Felipe De Ferrari (Plan Común / OnArchitecture) is co-organizing a discussion panel at UC Architecture School on March 21st. Entitled ‘Chilean Architecture as a common field of knowledge’. The guests are Alejandra Celedón, Francisco Díaz (Ediciones ARQ), Arturo Scheidegger & Ignacio García Partarrieu (Umwelt) and Tomas Villalón. The discussion will be moderated along with Jørg Himmelreich (Archithese).
Description of the event: This conversation aims to reflect on contemporary Chilean architecture practice with a specific focus on a generation of young designers grown under dictatorship and formed as architects in the last part of Chilean transition to democracy (which is still ongoing).
What are their positions regarding Chilean culture? Which are the most relevant themes, trajectories and perspectives within their theoretical explorations and build projects? How do methodological, structural, conceptual and aesthetic considerations answer to social, political, geographical and economic conditions or challenge them? On the other hand, in which relation are specific Chilean strategies to the reflection of global discourses?
For more information:
Go to Archithese
Go to UC Architecture School
L'École Nourrie: Towards a building-generator of commons
Kim Courrèges, Felipe De Ferrari and Sacha Discors led team in the ‘intensif’, a workshop at Marne-la-vallée School of Architecture. This year the event was coordinated by Giovanni Piovene and included other tutors such as Jean-Benoît Vétillard, Ambra Fabi, Giaime Meloni, Victor Miot (obvie architecture), Léonard Lassagne (Data Architectes) or Iris Lacoudre to name a few.
Our team worked in tune with the original will by the project and the aim by its authors, Bernard Tschumi Architects: The design of the school begins from the thesis that there are “building-generators” of events. Such structures are often condensers of the city. Through their programs as well as their spatial qualities, they accelerate or intensify a cultural and social transformation that is already in progress.
For more information :
Go to Marne-la-vallée School of Architecture
Final Review at ETH MAS Urban Design
Felipe De Ferrari was invited to participate in the final review of ‘Inclusive Urbanism: Beirut’ directed by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Something Fantastic in the MAS Urban Design (Chair of Marc Angélil) at ETH Zürich. Other guests included Mona Harb (American University), Monica Basbous (Public Works), Gide Haidar and Sascha Delz.
For more information:
Go to MAS Urban Design website
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Exhibition
Plan Común along République Studio (Graphic Design) and Abraxas (Lightning) were shortlisted for the exhibition display of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition to be held at Grand Palais (Paris, France) in October 2019.
Plan Común HQ in Paris
After 6 years based in Santiago (CL), Plan Común is now based in Paris. At same time we will continue developing research and projects in Chile, European context allow us to engage to new issues and questions. French architects Sacha Discors and Nissim Haguenauer (Gare du Nord) are partners in this new phase of our practice.