In this elective course we will interrogate the possibilities of repair as a method for a new kind of architectural design model, as a disciplinary response in the era of climatic change. The course should pose range of questions and challenges to conventional building economies, standards of construction industry ranging in scale from urban to material choices.

In this elective course we will interrogate the possibilities of repair as a method for a new kind of architectural design model, as a disciplinary response in the era of climatic change. The course should pose range of questions and challenges to conventional building economies, standards of construction industry ranging in scale from urban to material choices.

More than half of residential buildings in Switzerland are single family houses. The houses and the land they occupy are the least environmentally efficient settlements yet remain the aspiration of many. Excessive energy-use from the house and the infrastructure that sustains it are just part of the widening gap between societal objectives of reducing carbon emissions and individual emancipation.