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On the basis of a currently relevant building task - the conversion and extension of multi-storey office buildings into residential buildings - we are testing whether and how a high ecological standard can be achieved in urban buildings. We are interested in the interplay between the existing building and the new part in terms of design, use, construction and also ecological conception.

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The tourism industry is important economic sector in Switzerland to activate the rural area for exchange between local and global. A role of architecture is creating local identity. We engage with the question of tourism architecture in Interlaken and Grindelwald with historical perspective to use image through actor-network drawing for arguments and critics in the future local context.

Under the title Convert - Reuse - Expand, we explore the architectural, social, structural, spatial and pictorial potential stored in the inventory and try to activate it for the project. It's about dealing with the existing building, converting something that already exists, reusing it and expanding it with new buildings in relation to the existing building.

Wir analysieren präfabrizierte Bauwerke durch ein Jahrhundert und versuchen Motive und architektonische Möglichkeiten einzuordnen. Wir übersetzen konstruktive Konzepte experimentell in räumliche. Uns interessiert aber auch das Schöpfen aus dem Ort und dem Bestand, ideell und materiell als Repertoir des Entwerfens. Wie treffen das örtlich Vorgefundene und die Konzepte der Präfabrikation aufeinander

Building value. Extensive new developments continue to happen across Zurich and its periphery, with Ersatzneubauten still presented as the most desirable option. Even when a significant built substance exists, revenue-driven development patterns usually end up prescribing its demolition and replacement.

How can architects foster urban culture through infrastructure?How can climate corridors impact social and ecological resilience?How can we imagine the future of architecture in Medellín?

How three mature sequoia trunks, measuring up to 1.1m in diameter, became available in Zurich is somewhat vague; accident, sickness, potential danger of falling, overcrowding? What we do know is we have some very precious material and we have the opportunity to make something useful and special. It is a coincidence that allows a new structure to create new space.

LIQUID CITY | Designing Land- and Water-Borne Urbanization ProcessesRijeka is not a city with a harbor but a harbor with a city.What do the dynamic situation of global investments, geopolitical conditions, and the climate crisis in the 21st century mean for Rijeka, located on the border between east and west, water and land?

Process Cartography - The Alps as Common GroundThe design semesters of Professor Vogt circle around the Alpine arc, following the thesis that this can be read as an urban Common Ground. Every semester, the task of verifying this thesis arises by focusing on a metropolitan region and asking about its specific relation to the alpine region.

Villages have lost most of their historic features. Peasant populations and traditional farming no longer exist. Yet village life continues to provoke imagination, and to promise an alternative path, an antidote to life in cities. During the semester you will write your own project brief and develop a research and a design project for a specific village in the Canton of Zurich.

A theoretical or experimental quantity, condition, or factor that does not vary in specified circumstances.Variable [vair-ee-uh-buhl]A quantity or function that may assume any given value or set of values.

Dionysos/Apollo is to become a rambling exploration on the lookout for an urban environment beyond reasonable or irrational, good and evil. Considering humankind as embedded in (and dependent on) its geological era, we look upon history’s intertwined layers as torpid raw potential to be fully deployed, appropriated and composed with – joyfully disrespecting historical authenticity.

The semester "Apollo" aims at designing erratic hyper-contexts generated by hypothetical ruling incentives: as a marker of singularities, it is to become the passionate catalogue raisonné of elemental urban idiosyncrasies.

This semester aims at both designing erratic hyper-contexts generated by hypothetical ruling incentives, and the obsessive recording of their past and present traces of erasures and becomings.