Schlagwort: energy landscape
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, ihre Form und ihr Aussehen, ist untrennbar mit der Historiographie der verfügbaren Energiequellen verbunden. Für die Planung war die Ressource Natur stets…
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…
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: 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…
