#UNTAGGED 2024
#UNTAGGED MAGAZINE
The #Untagged magazine is an annual publication that compiles the work of the different editions of the MAS in Collective Housing MCH, taught by the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).
Each year, a student is selected to edit the work done by their peers and is part of the editorial board of the magazine, which is exhibited digitally and physically. Additionally, the MCH website has this section as an appendix of some of the work and interviews with the various participants.
We hope that #Untagged will be a platform that makes visible our vision of architecture, focused on collective housing, teamwork and consistent design.
About #UNTAGGED 2024
Inhabiting according to the context / By Camilo Meneses / Untagged Editor
The MCH is a diverse and compressed program that explores multiple approaches to housing projects from complex perspectives: climate, urbanism, landscape, sustainability, construction, sociology, market, emergency, crisis, needs, future projections, dreams, among others; always understanding its collective role, for and with society, designing from the craft of detailing to urban presence and interaction with its neighbors.
Inhabiting according to the context is the name of the 2nd edition of #Untagged, compilation of the 2023, 15th edition of MCH that teaches us how our decisions impact others, as well as the context impacts our design, being this correlation a fundamental part to understand the resolution of the current housing crisis.
In only 7 months, 22 students produce more than 100 architectural solutions to multiple commissions in their 8 specialties and 7 workshop classes. This magazine presents 30 of the most outstanding projects, architectural visions on collective housing and its possible solutions, always from the collaborative perspective of teamwork between professionals, of different ages and multiple countries.
The ability to have a positive impact will always depend on what surrounds us. Being aware of beyond the architectural ego or the individual professional search, understanding the role of service and responsibility that implies the design of spaces for living, that is the MCH, that is #Untagged.
The nature of practice in architecture / by José María De Lapuerta / MCH Director
The design of the Master’s program in Collective Housing UPM-ETH, at the beginning of this century, started from a conviction: Housing is a social modifier that affects ALL aspects of society.
This amplifies the importance of collective housing although, to go deeper into it, we no longer have to talk only about housing. We are talking about the fact that it will influence the thermodynamic bill, the integration of immigrants and many other groups, the economy, the care of the elderly and children, even the decrease of the vulnerability index of this society.
This is the program of a Master’s, in which “learning by doing” exemplifies our aspirations. We are immensely fortunate that there are no excuses for possible weaknesses in the program. We can have the best faculty and students in the world and we have an obligation to look closely at society to realize the changes in the areas we can influence.
“From architecture to high density housing to the city”
Every exercise, whether it is a design or theoretical project, needs tangible variables, elements that support our point of view and that frame what we do and what we do not do, since both the project and the research are linked by the elements that allow us to understand, represent and transmit it.
We know where the architects who have studied in the different editions of the MCH are. They are improving aspects that society demands from us in the 5 continents and from very different responsibilities. Some of them very important.
Let #UNTAGGED be the testimony of what we believe MCH is and hopes to be.
Editorial committee:
MCH Director · José María de Lapuerta
MCH Manager and 2024 Editor · Camilo Meneses
MCH 2023 Editor · Andrés Solano