How can we as designers radically reimagine place-making in Sarajevo by connecting the existing natural and built environment with local resources and digital infrastructures as models for sustainable living?The watershed of the Miljacka River has the potential to unlock socio-ecological systems and multifunctional corridors, that address urban fragmentation, and Climate Action.

We will focus on the most urgent global issue and a main responsibility for the architectural practice: the climate. We will transform recent architectural landmarks along the railway yard - Zurich’s largest heat island - into resilient, sustainable, low-tech buildings for the climate scenarios expected in 50 years. Following our work on the Prime Tower, we are shifting towards the Europaallee.

This semester cycle, we will focus on the most urgent issue as a global community and therefore one of the main responsibilities for the architectural practice: the climate. We will transform recent architectural landmarks along the railway yard - Zurich’s heat island - into resilient, sustainable, low-tech buildings for the climate scenarios expected in 50 years.

In this semester we investigate transformations of anonymous post-war office and commercial buildings into residential buildings. The semester will be carried out in cooperation with the Professorship for Sustainable Building of Guillaume Habert and the artists Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs.

We propose to consider the city as a garden, albeit not one made of soil rich in organic matter, but one made of concrete, this material so emblematic of Swiss architecture and therefore of Swiss cities. What are the conditions that permit life to appear in an otherwise mineral, barren urban environment? Zürich will be taken as a case study to explore the potential of this urban nature.

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This semester delves into the imperative of perpetual growth, initiating with deconstruction and elimination, while also delving into speculative futures through AI and immersive experiences in Belgium. These endeavours aim to inform architectural proposals for a designated set of ETH buildings located in the heart of the city.

Curiosity. A visceral wish to learn about something, a radical interest that takes root in the exertion of cura: of deep, selfless care and attention. This semester, we will allow ourselves to be guided by curiosity, by the desire to find out more about what we think we know so well.

On the Greek island of Delos, vernacular farmhouses tell an unexpected story of resourcefulness, adaptation, and hybrid construction. This design studio invites students to explore how this story speaks to contemporary challenges, designing the revitalization of a network of farmhouses through the intersection of traditional building crafts and emerging sustainability practices.

Departing from elementary observations by French writer Georges Perec in his book Species of Spaces we will develop a critical reading and engaged writing of places to dwell. We will approach architectural precedents as a repository to learn from and open up dialogues with. We will reflect on dwelling types, their past and present relevance and their potential meaning to address current needs.

This studio work on the idea of PRAC-TEACH. How PRACTICE and TEACHING relates.A PRACTICE OF THE SCHOOL lends 3 projects available for CHANGE – OBSERVATION – REFLECTION – IMAGINATION.This studio will be held 7 semesters, each HS.For the PILOT SEMESTER the PRACTICE BEHIND will be ours.

What is a Value? It is a number, and yet everything but a number. It is in itself a contradictory concept, expressing what we deem important, worthy or useful. However, this varies for different people in different contexts and moments. Values are all but static concepts, let alone universal ones, are positioning exercises, make us take up a position or re-evaluate the positions we took up before.

Mäusebunker, the former animal testing laboratory in Berlin, survived its almost inevitable demolition, thanks to the joined forces of architects, politicians and citizens. Now that the building got a second chance the question is: What is the future of Mäusebunker?Together we will answer this question by proposing an architectural design for re-using the iconic brutalist building.

How do we want to live? Hardly any building task in architecture is so fundamentally and so strongly determined by conventions as housing. The focus of the work in the studio is the critical and experimental examination of new forms of living in different climatic regions of Switzerland.

Students have the opportunity to examine architectural elements that define their architecture. We carry out this search throughout the semester and divide it into three phases: element, structure and whole. We will delve deeply into the architectural space and the materialized elements that define that space.

In the design studio EVERYTHING YOU NEED, will work on new cooperative apartment buildings along the train tracks between Zurich and Olten.

When one dismantles a car, one is first struck by the diversity and hierarchy of its parts. The largest components - doors, hood, chassis - form the outer shell that defines the vehicle’s exterior image. As the dismantling continues, one reaches the internal systems: radiator, gearbox, brakes, transmission. Then, moving closer to the engine, the parts become ever smaller, down to elements of extre

The Hermetschloo area is one of the few sites along the Gleisfeld that remain in their original state. In the future, the site will be heavily densified. At the same time, the zone is full of strong architectural characters. How can they be adapted to become fixtures in a new district, which transport the characteristics and identity of the ‘old’ Hermetschloo into the future?

EXFORMA explores the concepts of reuse, repurposing, and recycling. These processes serve as methods for reclaiming waste, challenging established production methods, and combating obsolescence by giving components and materials a second life. At the same time, they enable a new reading of the environments in which we live.

“Architecture is a temporary answer to a temporary need.” reads the plaque at the foot of the tower. Few people know the inscription, which is surprising, since every stone of the Swissmill tower has been a topic for debate since its construction in 2016. Since then, the project has been the subject of as much controversy as of myths and conspiracies.