Schlagwort: energy infrastructure
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 theory of urbanisation and urban environments at the architecture faculty in Mendrisio, organized by Prof. Sascha Roesler and Julian Raffetseder. Topics address…
book: review
Marc Angélil reviews both Publications for the architecture magazine WERK, BAUEN & WOHNEN (1_2/2023): Perspektivenwechsel Zwei Bände über Klima, Stadt und Entwerfen Kaum beginne man mit der Lektüre, kann keiner der beiden Bände aus der Hand gelegt werden. Im englischen Sprachgebrauch lautet der hierfür verwendete Begriff Page-Turner. Die Bücher erzählen von einer Ideengeschichte des Klimawandels,…
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: 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: 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…
