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Topology
Last Updated: 2026-02-05 16:31:01
Abstract
The Elective Course series “Topology” delves into the multifaceted nature of places. During the Autumn Semester 2024, we will explore the fallow site Hardturm in Zurich West. The participating students from D-ARCH and D-BAUG will be tasked with observing how communities shape urban spaces and with juxtaposing digital environments to investigate potentials.
Objective
This elective course gives architecture students the opportunity to further develop their perception of space through a site-specific approach in the field of landscape architecture. The students will learn to use 3D point cloud technology and other spatial sensing technologies in order to analyze complex urban landscape and develop new ways of editing and representing these intertwined spaces.
Content
Students will document and analyze a case-study site to reveal its topological potentials and sensory qualities. This understanding will be gained through point cloud modeling and audiovisual composition. In particular, we will develop a new, comprehensive sectional model of a topologically interesting site situation. Students will become acquainted to working with digital models produced with laser-scanning and combined with sound. Through a series of steps, they will learn how a laser-scanning survey is conducted, how the raw data is processed, how point cloud models are assembled, what qualities these models can provide to analyze, explore and represent space as an audiovisual experience. Collected samples from the field will be assembled and built into an interactive application in the «Landscape Visualization and Modelling Lab». The software taught is open-source and can be installed on private laptops, facilitating applicability beyond the course.
Resources
Lecture Notes
Literature will be provided during the course.Poster:https://lvml.ethz.ch/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/topology_2024HS_poster.pdf3D model:https://lvml.ethz.ch/model/
Learning Materials (Links)
- Main link
- Information
General Information
- Language
- English
- Levels
- BSC , MSC
- Frequency
- Semesterly recurring
Examination
- Type
- ungraded semester performance
Course Components
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Topology
Keine Lehrveranstaltung am 24.10.2024 (Seminarwoche) sowie in den beiden letzten Semesterwochen (vor Schlussabgaben).
Kursorte: Siehe jeweilige Raumangaben!
Unterrichtssprachen: Deutsch und Englisch / Teaching languages: German and English.
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2 h weekly |
Offered In
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Electives (The entire course programs of ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich are open to the students to individual selection.)
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Core Courses (The core courses build on the basic courses and convey basic, broad knowledge in the core areas of landscape architecture in relation to design lessons. Some of the core courses are compulsory and some are freely selectable. Further details, in particular about taking these subjects, for performance assessments and for compensating for failed subjects, are regulated in Art. 27 and Art. 31 Paragraph 4.)
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