This studio invites students to question the assumption that every architectural project must be entirely unique. Rather than designing a single building, students will create a fully automated system capable of generating countless variations of high-quality, inspiring designs constructed using timber and bio-materials.

This studio will challenge students to develop not just one design but a fully automated system that can generate endless designs for high-quality, inspiring, and sustainable timber housing. Students will work in small groups, each representing a notional “housing factory” that is asked to produce thousands of new homes for Zurich within the next 10 years.

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.