Schlagwort: carbon cities
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 pandemic centres reveals not only the link between density and pandemics , but also the challenge faced by urbanised territories in tackling…
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.
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…
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…
