practice: testplanung hauptbahnhof biel
In the coming years, the city of Biel is planning a large-scale development in the central area of the main railway station and the surrounding districts with a direct connection to the…
lecture: thermal placemaking
Architectural strategies of thermal adaptation, 24. April 2023, Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio.Input lecture on the topic of thermal governance for the SS2023 course „City, Climate, and Architecture“ hosted by the professorship for…
article: macht des massstabs
Werk magazine contribution about geneva’s energy landscape and its extend beyond the region’s boarders, no. 4-2023:Wie sich im Denken jenseits von Grenzen Genfs Selbstbild einer Energielandschaft abzeichnet. Die Entwicklung der Stadt Genf,…
teaching: BFH master thesis
External expert and reviewer for the master thesis „The planning related urban climatology“ by Lamya Zaykah.The advice of the ongoing Master’s thesis relates to the exploration of urban climate as a means…
book: review
Marc Angélil reviews both Publications for the architecture magazine WERK, BAUEN & WOHNEN (1_2/2023):PerspektivenwechselZwei Bände über Klima, Stadt und EntwerfenKaum beginne man mit der Lektüre, kann keiner der beiden Bände aus…
book: mentioning
Baunetz presents the Klimapolis series published with Birkhäuser.-> go to BaunetzLinkedIn post below:…
snsf: agora grant proposal
Future Urban Climates. Recordings from the Subtropical City of Zurich.The Project «Future Urban Climates» targets high school classes to communicate scientific and architectural insights related to urban climates. The research content is…
snsf: nrp80 grant proposal „covid-19 in society“
Learning Cities. Past and Future of Urban Planning and Design After Pandemics.In cities, pandemics spread out and reveal fragilities in the way human society is organised. Hence, the focus on cities as…
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…
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…
exhibition: energy landscape (fribourg)
Follow-up exhibition of „The City as Energy Landscape“ at HEIA Fribourg in March 2022The small exhibition promotes the notion of ‘energy landscape’ as a conceptual framework to challenge our current understanding of…
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…
research: energy landscape of geneva
Energy Ecologies of GenevaThe 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,…
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…
seminar: architecture and urban climate
Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, SS 2020The 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 CaseFrom traditional, communal right to individual right.The world’s population can basically…
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…