Utopia, science fiction, Star Trek, flexibility and mobility within your own four walls, courage and motivation, rearranging rigid structures, experiencing new forms of living in architecture. The enthusiasm for his master’s thesis in the course architecture Jasper Starke was noticeable when he presented his work to interested guests from Lübeck politics, members of the AK Urban Planning and Environment and the Architekturforum Lübeck in the red hall of the town hall.
“Basically, my work was about thinking about forms of living and architecture in such a way that the focus was more on the residents and they had independence when it came to housing, but without making any long-term commitments,” explains Jasper Starke.
Separating space from the ground and always offering residents the opportunity to own the living space is no longer possible for many people in the cities with rising rents and the current price structure when building their own home. Afterwards, the guests discussed controversially and benevolently the playful and utopian forms of living with many abstract and fictitious ideas by Starke.
“Building for Change is the motto – as is already being tested in the Netherlands with adaptable floating settlements. In a fast-moving, networked world, we have to find ways of keeping forms of living and urban design up to date and, despite all the progress, also make the real world exciting, colorful and spontaneous in a timely manner without getting lost in building law and development plans,” adds the master’s graduate . From the individual module, the combination of communal but independent living structures, so as not to lose independence even with urbanity – up to the application in the concrete urban context, this project could offer not only living space but also the existing city quality of life and added value. “A principle that can quickly become abstract if thought of from a broad perspective – but in principle it would not be unrealizable. It picks people up because it’s not technically impossible. It would have to be started in a small circle as a pilot project and there would be a wide range of possibilities,” says Jasper Starke.