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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.

Living together means rethinking housing and investigating how architecture could host not only human needs, but also the presence and agency of plants, animals, microorganisms, water etc. Moving beyond an anthropocentric approach, it requires new spatial typologies, porous structures, generous thresholds, systems for managing water and enhancing biodiversity. .

For us Living together means rethinking housing and investigating how architecture could host not only human needs, but also the presence and agency of plants, animals, microorganisms, water etc. Moving beyond an anthropocentric approach, we require new spatial typologies, porous structures, generous thresholds, systems for managing water and enhancing biodiversity.

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.

By concentrating on a few built examples, we try to understand certain stories, but also observe what is repeated. Namely, how the houses are built: with the basic elements of architecture such as walls, floors, ceilings and columns. Part of the investigation seeks to understand how and why their expression changes over time, and what we can learn from this.

They are often places along big roads, adjacent to infrastructural buildings, green spaces that do not have a clear function, or leftover spaces that are created by the parcelling and division of land. Precisely these spaces interest us this semester: the ‘unuseless spaces’.

In ‘Essay on Architecture’ (1743) Laugier explores architecture’s anthropological origins, beyond the idea of shelter that the primitive hut embodies. We are interested in Laugier’s vision of architecture as a mediator between humans, nature and biodiversity — a vision relevant to today’s challenges.

We will start with the conversion of furniture in our studio: six chairs. In the first weeks, we will work on adapting these chairs to new requirements and opening up possibilities through the use of other materials. We see this as your first contact with the topic of living and adapting. Subsequently, we will deal with a specific type of Zurich housing: the urban villa.

‘to edit’ means to modify, condense, correct or adapt something: data, numbers, texts. Our focus this semester we will be on editing existing structures – specifically, office buildings into residential buildings.

Last semester we thought about the ‘unuseless spaces’ in Zurich, this semester we are concentrating on the 'unuseless rooms’. Interior spaces in existing buildings and built structures that stand empty and unused. Rooms that are waiting to be demolished or modified because they seem obsolete. We try to discover new potentials in these "silent" spaces and to redefine the ‘unuseless rooms’.

This course intends to use different techniques of recording and research to capture a special and important time in the history of Zurich between the late 1970s and the early1980s. The documents that each student produces will be test of how to communicate and archiving specific topics of this time.

This course intends to use different techniques of recording and research to capture a special and important time in the history of Zurich between the late 1970s and the early1980s. The documents that each student produces will be test of how to communicate and archiving specific topics of this time.

This course intends to use different techniques of recording and research to capture a special and important time in the history of Zurich between the late 1970s and the early1980s. The documents that each student produces will be test of how to communicate and archiving specific topics of this time.

This course intends to use different techniques of recording and research to capture a special and important time in the history of Zurich between the late 1970s and the early1980s. The documents that each student produces will be test of how to communicate and archiving specific topics of this time.

This course intends to use different techniques of recording and research to capture a special and important time in the history of Zurich between the late 1970s and the early1980s. The documents that each student produces will be test of how to communicate and archiving specific topics of this time.

How can architects integrate the topic of cohabitation and biodiversity into the design process? As an interdisciplinary discipline, architecture plays a key role in promoting biodiversity in urban areas. In this seminar, promising leverages and fields of action will be explored and discussed in order to create ecologically rich and networked living spaces of high-quality.

How can architects integrate the topic of cohabitation and biodiversity into the design process? As an interdisciplinary discipline, architecture plays a key role in promoting biodiversity in urban areas. In this seminar, promising leverages and fields of action will be explored and discussed in order to create ecologically rich and networked living spaces of high-quality.

How can architects integrate the topic of cohabitation and biodiversity into the design process? As an interdisciplinary discipline, architecture plays a key role in promoting biodiversity in urban areas. In this seminar, promising leverages and fields of action will be explored and discussed in order to create ecologically rich and networked living spaces of high-quality.