Replicating Desirable Spaces to Scale

Nabr co-founders Bjarke Ingels, Nick Chim and Roni Bahar join the podcast to discuss the design and development of San Jose’s SoFA One, the changing landscape of the American city, and how the firm aims to provide affordable housing solutions through home ownership. The group discusses how their unique backgrounds play into the solution and discuss their vision for desirable housing that can help create vibrant communities.

Learning objectives:

1.    Explain the types of housing issues for which Nabr is trying to solve.

2.    Describe how the Nabr lofts address individual distinctiveness despite their standardized building process.

3.    Discuss how the model invites collaboration with products from other companies, including emerging product designers.

4.    Describe the financing and logarithm aspects of Nabr’s model.

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Speaker: Aaron Prinz