Schlagwort: urban planning
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 lake and the city center. An interdisciplinary team (Lorenz Eugster Landscape Architecture, Schneiter Traffic Planning, Pool Architects, Zeugin-Gölker Real Estate Strategies, USI –…
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…
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…
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…
