Miastosfera takes part in an international project Comparative study on student housing in Europe. Linkages between student lifestyles and housing choices. Vision for French development and experiments sponsored by the French Ministery of Public Works (Program PUCA – Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture). It is executed jointly with the Center for Urban and Regional Studies of the Helsinki University of Technology (coordination of the project) and architect office Nicolas Favet Architectes fromFrance.
The project consists of two parts. In the first phase, the team of Miastosfera collected statistical data on availability and funding of student housing in Poland. Similar reports have been collected from 10 other European countries.
The second phase narrows down to fieldwork research covering multidimensional, spatial, architectonic and social evaluation of selected student houses in several European countries. The team of Miastosfera collects and analyses data on users’ assessment of the buildings as well as cooperates with the team of architects on collecting data on the quality of buildings and their surroundings.
The project will be completed in winter 2009 and its results will be published as a book by PUCA.