This semester explores “Soft Permanence”: buildings as temporary resting places for materials — not fixed, but moments in a longer chain of transformations. Using a catalogue of more than 100 reused components, we will design collective housing in the Limmattal, rethinking architecture as cycles of reuse and transformation, and exploring new forms of dwelling.

We will work with reused building elements to design adaptable collective housing in Zurich. Projects grow from a catalogue of found components, testing new ideas of performance, expression, and making.

This semester explores “Soft Permanence”: buildings as temporary resting places for materials — not fixed, but moments in a longer chain of transformations. Using a catalogue of more than 100 reused components, we will design collective housing in the Limmattal, rethinking architecture as cycles of reuse and transformation, and exploring new forms of dwelling.