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Architectural Design V-IX: The end of youth (M. Issoufou)
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Abstract
In a time of environmental collapse, economic fragility and rapidly aging societies, we are becoming more and more vulnerable, yet we live painfully separate and segregated lives from each other. We no longer have the built infrastructure to live together, even though we clearly need one another, as was made painfully evident by the COVID global pandemic.
Objective
This studio will ponder the place of architecture in this time of crisis and fragilities. The focus will be on a neighborhood of Zürich where students will immerse themselves in the local environment, social and economic context of the project through in-depth research. The course will unfold as a process that will help and encourage participants to imagine typologies that are multi-layered solutions in response to a predominant social vulnerability.
Content
Architecture has often been an agent of that isolation and degradation through the typologies we design. They are easily complicit in reinforcing class segregations, cultural segregations, or even generational segregations. The youthful optimism ushered in through the industrial revolution, facilitating the advent of a modernist architecture that explored an incredible freedom of form and space, culminating in a contemporary architecture of sometimes exhilarating form. Overtime, buildings have detached themselves from any concerns related to climate, geography, nature, and human conditions, to become more about technical possibilities focused constant invention sometimes to the detriment of the buildings’ use or usefulness.
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Literature
Gilroy Rose. Planning for an Ageing Society; London: Lund Humphries, 2021 Siedler Andrea. Age Dossier 2020, Generationenwohnen heisst Nachbarschaft; Age Stiftung, 2020 Housing: (without category when finished?) Hugentobler Margrit. Wohnen im Alter: vor allem für Frauen ein Thema; Collage: Zeitschrift für Raumentwicklung, 2008 Feddersen Eckhard, Lüdtke Insa. Entwurfsatlas Wohnen im Alter; Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2018 Pock Leonie, Althaus Eveline, Otto Ulrich, Greusing Marie-Hélène, Kaspar Heidi, Glaser Marie. Generationenwohnen; Zürich: ETH Wohnforum - ETH CASE, 2021 Hugentobler Margrit, Ulrich Otto. Gemeinschaftliche Wohnformen in der zweiten Lebenshälfte; Zürich, ETH Wohnforum, ETH CASE, Careum, 2016 Sociology: Höpflinger François, Hugentobler Valérie, Spini Dario. Age Report IV: Wohnen in den späten Lebensjahren, Grundlagen und regionale Unterschiede; Zürich und Genf CH: Seismo Verlag, 2019 Höpflinger François, van Wezemael Joris. Age Report III: Wohnen im höheren Lebensalter, Grundlagen und Trends; Zürich und Genf CH: Seismo Verlag, 2014 Knöpfler Carlo, Meuli Nora. Alt werden ohne Familienangehörige; Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit FHNW, 2020 Knöpfler Carlo, Leitner Johanna, Meuli Nora, Pardini Riccardo. Das frei verfügbaren Einkommen älterer Menschen in der Schweiz; Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit FHNW, 2019 Kurzfassung Bernard Miriam, Scharf Thomas. Critical Perspectives on Ageing Societies; Bristol: The Policy Press, 2007 Baumberger Isabel, Meienberg Dominique. Leben wie ich will. Autonomes Wohnen im Alter; Zürich, Stiftung Alterswohnungen der Stadt Zürich SAW, Kontrast Verlag, 2010 Brändli Maya, SRF Kulturtalk, https://www.srf.ch/audio/kultur-talk/das-alter-neu-denken?id=12316618#autoplay
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- Language
- English
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- BSC
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- Semesterly recurring
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- graded semester performance
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Architectural Design V-IX: The end of youth (M. Issoufou)
Permission from lecturers required for all students.
No course 21./22.3.23 (seminar week).
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16 h weekly |