Designing for the Future

Contributors, Densities, Energy and sustainability, Formats, Marta Bugés, No Density, Sou Fujimoto, Talk, Topics, Urban Paradigms.

Alternative Domesticity, Architect’s role, Architecture&nature, Budapest, Circulation, City living, Collective housing, Community, Community Facilities, Connections, Context, Continuity, Design strategies, Diversity, Dynamic processes, Environment, Global Awareness, Hungary, Integration, Interaction, Landscape, Outdoor space, Privacy, Programmatic coexistences, Public Space, Relational space, Street network, talk, User's experience.

This conversation was held within the Hay Festival Segovia 2022 organized by IE University.

urbanNext interviews Sou Fujimoto about design strategies that foster relationships between inhabitants by merging architecture with nature. Sou is the founding principal of Sou Fujimoto Architects, based in Tokyo and Paris. The House of Music in Budapest and L’Arbre Blanc in Montpellier are two of his most recent projects in which he proposes spaces that respond to the needs of the future.