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All About San Riemo: A Conversation with SUMMACUMFEMMER

2025

Abstract

SUMMACUMFEMMER is a practice based in Leipzig, founded in 2015 by Anne Femmer and Florian Summa. Their acclaimed cooperative project San Riemo (2020), a house for around one hundred inhabitants, is arguably one of the most important housing projects produced in recent years. San Riemo is a strikingly innovative scheme, featuring a ﬁeld of neutral same-sized rooms, where kitchens replace corridors and the lines between apartment units are blurred. But beyond the architectural ﬂoor plan lies a world of challenges and a great deal of luck. In this interview with Jolanda Devalle, Summa and Femmer shed light on what goes on behind-the-scenes while designing and building experimental and affordable housing. From navigating ﬁre safety regulations and other restrictive codes and standards, to decibels, radiators, and not-so-legal room partitions, the design of housing is for SUMMACUMFEMMER an open-ended exercise, for which there can be no “recipe.”

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2025

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Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the details, terminology, definitions of poverty, and other criteria for allocation vary within different contexts. In the United States, public housing developments are classified either as housing projects that are owned by a city's Housing authority or federally subsidized public housing operated through HUD.

Apartment

An apartment (American English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single storey. There are many names for these overall buildings, see below. The housing tenure of apartments also varies considerably, from large-scale public housing, to owner occupancy within what is legally a condominium (strata title or commonhold), to tenants renting from a private landlord (see leasehold estate).

Housing estate

A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex, housing development, subdivision or community) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Popular throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, they often consist of single family detached, semi-detached ("duplex") or terraced homes, with separate ownership of each dwelling unit. Building density depends on local planning norms.