ETH CASE Centre for Research on Architecture, Society & the Built Environment

As a core area of living, housing is subject to the interplay between social and technological transformations. This challenge is at the heart of our activities at the internationally positioned research centre ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE (Centre for Research on Architecture, Society & the Built Environment). Our work focuses on the design of liveable housing environments, relying in the process on our many years of experience in the field of housing research in Switzerland and abroad. The results are practically relevant solution approaches to the design of liveable cities and to the development of good and affordable housing.

The goal of our work is to formulate basic principles, strategies and application-orientated solution proposals on questions of housing, in particular concerning the quality and production of residential space in urban and agglomeration areas. We have a profound store of expert knowledge at our disposal in the social and cultural sciences, architectural and spatial research, as well as in the development of the methods and instruments with which to analyse and design human settlements.