Looking around you realize that the built environment has changed our ecosystem forever. What is being discussed in various disciplines as the consequences of the Anthropocene, has long arrived in the architectural discourse as well. Because we, as architects, contribute significantly to these changes by designing our built, and therefore shaping the unbuilt environment.

Nach unserem Semester in Arni (AG), in welchem wir die systemischen Grundgesetze des Schweizer Dorfes untersucht haben, legen wir dieses Semester den Fokus auf die spezifischen Eigentümlichkeiten, die den liebenswerten Charakter von Hüttikon als Dorf ausmachen.

How can we as architects re-imagine Sarajevo– 40 years delayed development – as a space of freedom designing a Re-generative Olympic Legacy?How can we engage the city's Olympic Spirit as a transformative force and question existing programs, resources, and imperfections?How can we propose urban models for a sustainable future andco-design citizens' ideas mending top down and bottom up?

In the Immersive Studio we design in virtual space and assess the current project status regularly from a first-person perspective. We work with the CAD software Rhinoceros and create our designs directly in 3D. Consistent work on the model ensures that the immersive experience of the project using virtual reality glasses is possible at any time and without additional effort.

In the Immersive Studio we design in virtual space and assess the current project status regularly from a first-person perspective. We work with the CAD software Rhinoceros and create our designs directly in 3D. Consistent work on the model ensures that the immersive experience of the project using virtual reality glasses is possible at any time and without additional effort.

In the immersive studio we will design in virtual space and assess the current project status regularly from a first-person perspective. We will work with the CAD software Rhinoceros and create our designs directly in 3D. Consistent work on the model ensures that the immersive experience of the project using virtual reality glasses is possible at any time and without additional effort.

In the immersive studio we will design in virtual space and assess the current project status regularly from a first-person perspective. We will work with the CAD software Rhinoceros and create our designs directly in 3D. Consistent work on the model ensures that the immersive experience of the project using virtual reality glasses is possible at any time and without additional effort.

About the reflected creation of spaces. In the patio. We study and design spaces of retreat and community.

How can we use water with more sensibility and efficiency?With these considerations in mind, we will explore the potential of existing structures and related spaces in Biel with a specific emphasis on housing.Through strategic interventions, we aim to establish cycles within these structures, transforming them into new living environments, fostering new synergies with the biodiversity of the site.

The thematic focus of the semester will be habitation in Zürich. The task will be to respond to the program and selected sites, by developing prototypes for urban habitation and social spaces that consider scalability, life-cycle, and aesthetic appeal.

We need Informal Learning Space, why? The studio, supported by ETH Innovedum, is jointly run by the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology, the "Newrope" Chair and the Chair of Cognitive Science. It develops from research and 1:1 mock-ups of HS21 towards realizations of interventions in FS22. Students tackle 3 environments at ETH: D-ARCH studios space ONA, Library InfoCenter, and D-USYS classroom.

What is a learning space at ETHZ? The studio supported by Innovedum, is jointly run by the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology and the NEWROPE Chair with the Chair of Cognitive Science. It develops from research and 1:1 mock-ups in HS2021 towards realizations of interventions in SS2022. Students tackle 3 environments: architecture studio space, semi-public library, and conventional classroom.

Improvising and adapting have a long history in the built environment and now that the time for new building is coming to an end, perhaps architects need to more fully embrace the sensibility of the interim.

The Japan Studio assignment is to design a tearoom as an extension of the cafe on the Hönggerberg campus and to assemble the structure using construction waste. Students will be challenged to reinterpret Japanese wooden architecture, which established a sophisticated circular economy, in the context of contemporary Switzerland, and to create a new architectural philosophy and technology.

From a circular perspective, we will be looking at hybrid steel buildings. With its rich history of local iron production, Delémont serves as a context for considering circular principles: We are looking for the architectural qualities and aesthetic potential in housing that emerge from considering material flows and ecological cycles.

The studio explores stress as a design methodology for landscape and architecture, shifting from risk avoidance to risk acceptance in response to intensifying climate threats. Focusing on lightweight structures, students stress-test designs against landslides, floods, fires, and storms. By pushing materials to their breaking point, they develop resilient, adaptive strategies.

The assignment reimagines the vacant former Kinderspital Zürich (KISPI), a complex of ten diverse buildings in Hottingen. Responding to uncertain demolition and the housing crisis, students propose housing and public uses. Each group develops one building as an autonomous protagonist within a collective, experimental vision beyond a conventional masterplan.

In the studio we will explore Swiss energy landscapes—from wood, oil and nuclear, to hydro, wind and solar—as they have formed the territory, and we will make visible the hidden networks of energy infrastructures. At the same time, we will study and visualise the major corporate and public governance structures of energy production and distribution in Switzerland.

From our territorial research in Bergell and dealing with process and machine in the last semester, we shift our focus to energy infrastructures in the alpine landscape. They interest us materially and culturally as incisive and permanent form constants in the landscape and architecturally as models of design principles.

The light, the panoramas, the scenographies of the seasons - the Upper Engadine always offers great cinema. A closer look, however, shows that this valley, which is characterized by contrasts, is determined by the most diverse, often divergent forces: natural processes directly meet economic and socio-cultural dynamics.