teaching: studio „the back“
ETH research & design studio of spring 2015 (Idyll and Ideology I). The backside is not only one property of the object, but rather a critical site of our built environment. It is on the backside that both the internal and external spatial organization and composition of the object come together. As a topos, it…
competition: natural historic museum and state archive of basel
Competition entry w/ Ciriacidis Lehnerer Architects in 2014, 2nd price. The new building near the former St. Johann freight yard combines the programs of Basel’s Natural History Museum (NMB) and State Archives (StABS). Positioned between the tracks and the residential street Entenweidstrasse, the building volume is oriented in both directions. To the north it directly…
exhibition: precision within indifference
Contribution to the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale 2014. The project took part in the 2014 International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE– with the Project “Precision within Indifference”, which features work from our “Western Town” project. Image © Jeroen Musch
research: singapore sewage
Research and documentation of the vast Singaporean drainage infrastructure.
research: singapore popsicle
Research and exhibition on Singapore’s road infrastructure as a means of control. The grid, the strip, the highway, and the suburban cul-de-sac are well known circulation typologies. Within these typologies there are sometimes found slight hybridizations, such as “ladders”1 in the grid, or the strip may be a boulevard. Now Singapore adds the popsicle to this collection of…
research: politics of the plot – the jakarta case
Research project at the Future Cities Laboratory and lecture at the int. FCL conference in 2013. The Politics of Land – Jakarta Case From traditional, communal right to individual right.The world’s population can basically be divided into two groups: those who own the land they stand on and those who do not. The question of…
research: monumental southeast
Research project on medieval Southeast Asian urbanism conducted at the Future City Laboratory Singapore in 2012. The project focused on sites of faith and power in medieval Asia and examined the relationship between monumental buildings and sophisticated irrigation systems. Agricultural processes determined the dynamics of urban planning and the development of the power structure of…
