Immobilien, Service und Expertise

The MAS ETH in Housing is a specialized course organized by the ETH Wohnforum – ETH Centre for Research on Architecture, Society and the Built Environment (ETH CASE). We are an interdisciplinary research centre focusing on housing issues in relation to their broader socioeconomic, cultural, political, institutional and spatial context.

High-rise buildings catch the eye, they polarize, high-rise plans have to reckon with numerous objections - in short: high-rise buildings make people talk. Experts from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts conducted a study on life in high-rise buildings. They wanted to know: How can social sustainability be promoted when building upwards?