We aim to seize economic requirements to transform constraints into levers, producers of qualities. These may well be tangible or intangible, prosaic or poetic, constant or unstable, general or occasional... As long as they are initiated by the economy and located far from any rationality. Creating generosity, “excesses” that make the strength and uniqueness of a place.

We aim to seize economic requirements to transform constraints into levers, producers of qualities. These may well be tangible or intangible, prosaic or poetic, constant or unstable, general or occasional… as long as they are initiated by the economy and located far from any rationality -creating generosity, “excesses” that make strength and uniqueness of a place.

We aim to seize economic requirements to transform constraints into levers, producers of qualities. These may well be tangible or intangible, prosaic or poetic, constant or unstable, general or occasional… As long as they are initiated by the economy and located far from any rationality. Creating generosity, “excesses” that make the strength and uniqueness of a place.

We aim to seize economic requirements to transform constraints into levers, producers of qualities. These may well be tangible or intangible, prosaic or poetic, constant or unstable, general or occasional… As long as they are initiated by the economy and located far from any rationality. Creating generosity, “excesses” that make the strength and uniqueness of a place.

Visibility and its Hidden Dimensions:If something catches the eye, what is next to it will be mechanically less looked at. For a light to appear, it has to emerge from the surrounding darkness. And what attracts the light often leaves its surroundings in shadow. Hence an implacable theorem: the visible is always born from the invisible.

Architecture that allows for multiplicity would be one that allows for economy and optimality, while also opposing the quest for the univocal standard, the isomorphic module and strict repetition. Otherwise, we fall into the trap of reproducibility: each copy is less sharp than the last. Avoiding this means defining places, spaces, constructive systems, assemblies that are as sharp as each other.

With the aim of building a community, we propose to work with a collective housing program but also with a community centre or small theatre, which will help to make a change of scale to a larger community, where more people now enter. The new program should be inserted in this place in the way that each student thinks is most useful.

Talking about building communities we think about a new community built within the city that exists, inviting new neighbours to interact with those who already live there. We propose to work in urban contexts in transformation, observing/identifying the valuable social/physical qualities embedded in the area and testing its capacity to be expanded/amplified as a basis to create a new urban chapter

After two semesters focussing our design studio on the city of Barcelona, we will now work on a very central area of Zurich: the neighbourhood of Neugasse and its relationship with the Gleisfeld.

The Architecture and Care design studio will address the spaces where human reproduction takes place. Gendered constructs around reproduction have been and still are central practices to the ways we structure social realities. Architecture and space have historically contributed to promoting and perpetuating sexist social models around reproductive labour and its associated care practices.

During the spring semester 2025, the Architecture and Care diploma studio will address domesticity through the lens of ageing. The studio will aim to question the ageist and normative constructs around the body, and imagine how space and architecture can support expanded caring practices for an ageing society.

We build, draw, burn, build, draw, burn until we get the house that we never imagined but always wanted.

This studio aims to design new local community centers – Care Hubs – where people can support each other independent of institutionalized frameworks. We will work in Otelfingen a rural village near Zürich. While rapid population growth in urban areas weakens community ties, in peri-urban areas, a subtle network of people's lives and activities can be seen. They can be utilized to create Care Hubs.

In 2020 Spring Chair of Architectural Behaviorology studies on designing architecture for new livelihoods focused on cattle breading, aiming to design Urban Rural Commons. Our field of study will be in the valley of Goms, in Wallis, an intra-alpine valley. Students propose the Urban Rural Commons to locals by drawings and models.

How can the de-industrialization of the neighborhood, Brasilândia, provide an opportunity to design a new centrality?How can we transform an abandoned mine into a central park?How can this prototype be evaluated and upscaled into a city-scale green system?

Architecture today is, to a large extent, about controlling water, whether in the atmosphere, in the soil, or in a building. Condensation, rainwater penetration and unwanted moisture can damage a building and impact on its longevity. An architect’s response to the durability of a construction and its materiality generally consists of designing resistance against weathering caused by water.

With the term circular, we adopt two building principles: we design houses that only have to last one generation and not a hundred years, and we assume that the material is more durable than the construction. In this way, we design tailor-made houses that can be dismantled after thirty years and reassembled anew and differently elsewhere.

We as a society, but also specifically we as architects, must use land, resources and energy as sparingly as possible in the future. Therefore, the focus of the design is a holistic consideration of climate-conscious building: we are developing hybrid systems made of earth in combination with re-use building components.

Along with guest lectures during the semester, which highlight the key protagonists and currents of this discourse in Europe, we form the starting point for our semester topic: Hugo Häring and Hans Scharoun in Germany; Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in France; Caccia Dominioni in Italy; Josef Frank and Adolf Loos in Austria,

Clarity and Confusion are opposite but complementary terms, philosophically charged dual phenomena that are ambiguous and architecturally undefined. This evasiveness will allow us to explore and experiment with their spatial, emotional, and object-oriented potentials by designing a Place for Meditation on a self-chosen site in Zurich, raising the question of how to facilitate a state of Samadhi.