book: coping with urban climate
Book on urban climate published with Birkhäuser 2022. Hatte die Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts die Kontrolle des Gebäudeklima zur Hauptaufgabe erklärt, so muss die Architektur im 21. Jahrhundert den Umgang mit dem Stadtklima lernen. Städtische Hitze und Luftverschmutzung gilt es in die Planung und Gestaltung einzubeziehen. Basierend auf empirischen Erkenntnissen aus Kairo, Chongqing, Genf und Santiago de Chile verdeutlicht…
book: concrete in switzerland. histories from the rencent past
Book contribution on terraced hill houses published in this EPFL press release from 2021. A groundbreaking work resulting from the collaboration between the three major Swiss Architectural Archives and the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. A historical assessment of the most controversial building material of our time, concrete, made by addressing a number of issues…
exhibition: energy landscape (fribourg)
Follow-up exhibition of „The City as Energy Landscape“ at HEIA Fribourg in March 2022 The small exhibition promotes the notion of ‘energy landscape’ as a conceptual framework to challenge our current understanding of energy as a cheap and abundant source for architecture. It presents ideas for designing the energy landscapes of the future, taking the…
seminar: the city as energy landscape
Seminar and public lecture series at Accademia di architettura Mendrisio, SS2021. This lecture series promotes the notion of ‘energy landscape’ as a conceptual framework to challenge our current understanding of energy as a cheap and abundant resource for architecture. It presents concepts and methods for designing the energy landscapes of the future.
research: energy landscape of geneva
Energy Ecologies of Geneva The study on Geneva addresses the topic of urban climate control in the context of the temperate climate and varying seasons in the central European city. In this research, the various scales of urban typologies, the neighbourhood and individual housing is examined to illustrate how the understanding of thermal comfort, which…
exhibition: energy landscape
The City as Energy Landscape. Exhibition at the Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio, 2020. This exhibition promotes the notion of “energy landscape” as a conceptual framework to challenge our current understanding of energy as a cheap and abundant source for architecture. It presents concepts and methods for designing the energy landscapes of the future, taking…
seminar: architecture and urban climate
Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, SS 2020 The seminar highlights the notion of “urban climate“ and its manyfold implications for architecture and urban design since the beginning of the 20th century. Due to its man-made character, the city climate differs fundamentally from the natural climate. By looking at the historical emergence of this concept and the complex…
exhibition: gebäude.grün – vom blumenfenster zum bosco verticale
Contribution to the gebäude.grün exhibition at Architekturforum Zurich 21.3-17.05.2019. Terraced housing: stacked gardens in the Bühnenberg quarter in Oftringen. The photos of the model (unfortunately lost) show it impressively: the harmony of landscape and architecture. This is not unusual, since many architects focus on the mural rather than the floral terrace form. In Atelier 5’s…
seminar: the city as energy landscape
Seminar in the series „to modernize or to ecologize?“ at Accademia di architettura Mendrisio, SS 2019. In cities nature and technology are increasingly intertwined; historian Thomas Hughes speaks of the “overlapping natural and human-built systems found in cities”. In this seminar, we investigated strategies of integrating natural forces in the city by conceiving of the…
teaching: studio „at work“
ETH research and design studio in fall 2015 (Idyll and Ideology II) The „At Work“ studio offered in the autumn semester of 2015 emanated from an invitation to collaborate with Manifesta 11, which took place in the summer of 2016. The project examined the spaces and places of work in the city – how they…
