Friday, March 5th
19.00 – The Opening of the Exhibition
Dr. Anna Jankovic, director of Austrian Kultur Forum
Mr. Dragoslav Šumarac, President of Serbian Chamber of Engineers
Oliver Elser, curator of the Exhibition
Vladimir Lojanica, Professor at the Belgrade University, Architecture Faculty
Ivan Kucina, BINA representative (Belgrade International Week of Architecture)

Friday, March 26th
1.30–5.30 p.m. - Workshop on Housing Living  - registration starting 10th Feb 2010. at http://www.bina.rs
with the representatives with the city of Belgrade and Vienna

Different Views on Residential Architecture

Meeting the International Architecture Week - BINA 2010 in May implemented the fifth consecutive year the Cultural Center of Belgrade and the Belgrade Association of Architects, at the Museum of 25th May, from 5 March to 11 April 2010, will be held on Housing Models: Experiments and Everyday Life.
The exhibition consists of 12 different, representative examples of multufamilied residential buildings built in the last decade in different cultural and social milieu of Europe, North and South America and Japan. They are presented through three forms: cardboard model - the work of students of Technical University and the Academy of Applied Sciences in Vienna - some of which are in real size, so that is possible to enter them and experience the space. Then, drawings, paintings and texts that contain technical data as well as statements and photographs of the tenants on which were recorded their moments of comfort and living. All of this gives the exhibition the connotation of dialogue, which, in addition to the numerous dilemmas about the quality of housing, shows to what extand the right solution for housing is crucial for the good mutual cooperation of architects and users of housing, their pleasure, comfort and pleasant of everyday life. Successful experiments in architecture becomes those who value the ordinary everyday life, and these concepts are presented in the name of the exhibition.
The fact that the focus settings are not only architectural works and their authors, but personal experience of tenants and their perception of space, gives to the exhibition the extra quality. Instead of conventional exhibitional projects with great plans, ambitious models and refined architectural photographs, which usually exclude those who need to live with it ", ie. tenants, this project moves the focus from the typical architectural settings the perspective of everyday users. Exhibits for the exhibition were then not actually chosen to reflect the radically new concepts in architecture, but different views on architecture.

Flat as the experiment

By the end of 2008, the exhibition of contemporary housing in the Vienna Künstlerhaus moved the boundaries of classical architecture exhibition. The exhibition was conceived and carried out the Viennese architectural bureau MVD, the chief curator Michael Rippers and Oliver Elserom. It is not accidental, because thinking about the Vienna architects designing and building architecture residence are the leading world example of good housing policy and architectural practice.
Advanced concept of the exhibition Housing models: experiments and everyday life is based on the idea that in modern time necessary to tenants and architects together once again examine possible types and forms višeporodičnog housing, to be open for dialogue and mutual learning from each other. Architectural thinking assumes life tenants, and tenants, in turn, showing them what is important and necessary, and the way they decided to use the flats. Therefore, each apartment becomes a small experiment, where the architect come back with tenants and analyze their everyday life, so coming to mutually beneficial knowledge. Therefore, the exhibition raises questions concerning all, such as those comfortably live, how many objects which stay fit our needs, how happy we are in them. This seemingly simple but very important issues, architecture provide a framework in which to place diverse social processes and phenomena of multilayer socialization, and not favor it as the perfect technological achievements and expressive form.
 

Can we still learn how to live?

Innovative proposals of architects, therefore, are not decisive for the quality of the buildings. The experiment never starts before it does not occupied by the first user. To get the final look of the object, should have been inhabited for at least two years, as is the case with all 12 projects exhibited here. This is the optimal period for the process of adaptation and appropriation of housing space, the process of accepting environment ... to the residents feel as "at home".
The exhibition is composed of very different projects, and at first glance seems to have been randomly selected objects. There is a model group Baugruppen from Berlin, a housing project of the non-profit organizations in Vienna, multifloored residential block in Tokyo, then the post-war block in Chicago, highly flexible building „shelf structures" near Zurich, cheap houses in a row in the Dutch city of Rosendal, those same houses but for migrants in Colorado, POS's social housing project in Croatia, the project of social housing with a maximum of cheap space in France, the main residential structure, which can spread themselves in the impoverished residents Ikike in Chile etc.. The exhibition's  visitor will perhaps wonder what prompted the Japanese athitekte to build houses in Tokyo, where residents voluntarily decided to live in a white reinforced steel cube that must leave when they want to go to the toilet. Example of a residential building in the Croatian Krapinskih Spa shows how their true shape and appearance of the buildings give only whe tenants occupy them. Objects from Switzerland and Vienna discover how to build new relations among tenants, who at one point, begin to live as a small community. All these examples which show that the uniqueness and specificity of objects read only through the ways in which people use them, and using furniture in their entries.
All of these examples were selected because, except primarily formalistic architectural discourse in the debate include other strategies, and raise questions on the way people can or want to live, then all unexpected ways that can be used for housing, or can we all together and learn how to live?

Belgrade apartment - research on residential models in Belgrade

In the exhibition will be shown the examples of the Belgrade apartment development, with emphasis on four typical models residential buildings, which has chosen Vladimir Lojanica, the Associate Professor at the Belgrade Faculty of Architecture. They bear witness to the values that are held in domestic housing. Visitors will be able to recognize his or similar housing units in the immediate city center, New Belgrade and edge zones of the city, and then leave your comment. As an important segment of the housing will be presented to Belgrade a typical living room, visitors to the exhibition, which will certainly include the question of how to actually live on a daily basis? That is the main aim of the exhibition Housing models: experiments and everyday life.

A special part of the exhibition is a video presentation of the achievements of the UN Habitat in Serbia from the program of integration of vulnerable groups. The audience will be able to see seven realized višeporodičnog housing facilities in Kragujevac, Valjevo, Nis, Cacak, Stara Pazova, Pancevo, Kraljevo in the last five years and a film in which the residents present their views on the facilities.