Kicking off this new semester with pictures from the ROOMS Reviews, the AFFORDANCES workshop and the end of year exhibition.
Pictures: Julien Heil
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PhD Seminar “Neighborhoods in Transition II”
Organized by the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) within the axis Integrated Design, Architecture and Sustainability (IDEAS) in partnership with the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA, London), the PhD seminar “Neighborhoods in Transition II” will explore, from 26-28 April 2025, the potentials of urban slopes in the context of a post-carbon society.
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*NEW PROGRAM*
SCHOOL LECTURE SERIES – HOUSING VOL.2
Introducing the second edition of the School Lecture Series this spring 2025, we invite six architecture offices to discuss housing and reuse through six exemplary projects. The lecture series will be complemented by the launch of Professor Charlotte Malterre-Barthes’s “A Moratorium on New Construction”.
Housing Vol.2.
Housing and Reuse: Six Exemplary Projects
Reuse of existing buildings is increasingly becoming a good practice. Yet, reuse is easier said than done. Within a capitalist society, buildings are produced as commodities and, as such, they are not meant to last. Moreover, what is at stake within reuse is not simply the reuse of buildings per se, but the whole process of building production behind each architectural project.
This lecture series explores projects of reuse in which former offices, factories, or houses are transformed or expanded as residential spaces. Each lecture will focus on one building in order to shed light not only on the advantages of reuse but also on its limits and challenges.
Save the dates and join us on Tuesday evenings! Find the recordings of the lectures on our YouTube channel @epflarchitectureschool
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LÜTJENS PADMANABHAN @luetjenspadmanabhan
Zwhatt Sufficiency Project
18.3
HARQUITECTES @harquitectes
Organizing matter: Social housing in Palma de Mallorca
1.4
INGE VINCK @architectenjdviv
Friant, about this and that and so on
15.4
MENNA AGHA, CHARLOTTE MALTERRE-BARTHES
@agha_menna @charlottemalterrebarthes @riot_epfl
"A Moratorium on New Construction" Book Launch & Talk
29.4
ANNA HEILGEMEIR
WiLMa 19 – Communal Living in collective Ownership
13.5
AVIOLAT CHAPERON ESCOBAR
Transformation d’un immeuble au chemin Guillaume Ritter à Fribourg
27.5
BHSF @axelhumpert
Güterstrasse 8, Berne
School Lecture Series
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Graphic design
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Agrandissement de l’École-Mairie, Satigny, Genève
Primary school extension, Satigny, Geneva
2022-2025
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Résidence Les Cèdres, Confignon, Genève
Residential building, Confignon Geneva
2022-2025
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Agrandissement de l’École-Mairie, Satigny, Genève
Primary school extension, Satigny, Geneva
2022-2025
Photo 5/6 Janvier January 2025 © Paola Corsini
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Résidence Les Cèdres, Confignon, Genève
Residential building, Confignon Geneva
2022-2025
Photo 4/5 Décembre December 2024 © Paola Corsini
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Agrandissement de l’École-Mairie, Satigny, Genève
Primary school extension, Satigny, Geneva
2022-2025
Photo 4/6 Janvier January 2025 © Paola Corsini
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suisse geneve
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Résidence Les Cèdres, Confignon, Genève
Residential building, Confignon Geneva
2022-2025
Photo 3/5 Décembre December 2024 © Paola Corsini
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Agrandissement de l’École-Mairie, Satigny, Genève
Primary school extension, Satigny, Geneva
2022-2025
Photo 3/6 Janvier January 2025 © Paola Corsini
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suisse geneve
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Résidence Les Cèdres, Confignon, Genève
Residential building, Confignon Geneva
2022-2025
Photo 2/5 Décembre December 2024 © Paola Corsini
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Agrandissement de l’École-Mairie, Satigny, Genève
Primary school extension, Satigny, Geneva
2022-2025
Photo 2/6 Janvier January 2025 © Paola Corsini
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suisse geneve
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Agrandissement de l’École-Mairie, Satigny, Genève
Primary school extension, Satigny, Geneva
2022-2025
Photo 1/6 Janvier January 2025 © Paola Corsini
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suisse geneve
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Résidence Les Cèdres, Confignon, Genève
Residential building, Confignon Geneva
2022-2025
Photo 1/5 Décembre December 2024 © Paola Corsini
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[MAS UTD ETHZ EPFL – Final Showcase, fall 2024]
FINAL SHOWCASE DESIGN STUDIO EPFL “Counterprojects. Counterspaces.”
The MAS UTD Studio Final Showcase at EPFL marked the conclusion of a semester filled with critical thinking, debates, and collaboration. Three counter-projects had been developed by the students for the Great Geneva transborder region of the Chablais.
Throughout the semester, the involvement of local associations, public authorities, practitioners, academics, and experts deeply connected to the Chablais, along with invited guests from fields such as activism, education, spatial planning, circular economy, and silviculture, greatly enriched the discussions. Their contributions offered invaluable insights into how these projects could shape local policy and inform long-term planning strategies.
We were honored to have the presence of Matthias Armengaud, Architect and Director of AWP / Guest Professor at ENSA Paris-Versailles, Andréa Finger-Stich, Environmental Expert and PhD in Forestry and Environmental Sciences, and the ACPAT Association (Association for Consultation and Proposals on Urban Planning and Transport) [https://acpat.e-monsite.com] represented by Grégoire Berthon. The guests were joined by members of the MAS Team from ETH—Milica Topalović, Nancy Couling, and Alice Clarke—and from EPFL—Paola Viganò, Tommaso Pietropolli, and Loan Laurent.
We look forward to seeing these students continue their journey at ETH, carrying with them the insights from the MAS UTD Studio to support their academic and professional growth.
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As part of the “Constructing materials” in Spring 2024 we visited a building site set for demolition. Students got hands-on, dismantling construction site materials to explore possibilities of reuse. From planning to execution, they documented every step to inquire how we can build smartly and more efficiently.
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Whether stone or concrete, plywood or timber, materials are produced not just physically but also conceptually. “Constructing Materials” UE course in Spring 2024 examined the conceptional constructions of materials and their significance for architecture. Considering materials not just from design to build but within a longer process of extraction, development, inhabitation, and demolition. During the semester student groups developed research and representational techniques to show buildings as assemblies of materials and components that rely on networks and things and places and people and are constantly in a state of slow transformation rather than fixed objects.
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Projet réalisé dans le cadre du cours de BA5 @constructing.the.view : Composition Series & Still Life - Color Shots" à @epflarchitecture . Le premier exercice nous a conduit à explorer des figures géométriques abstraites en 2D, en analysant les stratégies de composition visuelle et les relations proportionnelles. Ces compositions ont été progressivement transférées en 3D, en intégrant des textures, des dégradés de lumière, et des perspectives pour créer une profondeur visuelle.
Dans la deuxième partie, nous avons imaginé des natures mortes abstraites en arrangeant des objets colorés dans des modèles 3D, puis en les photographiant avec un soin particulier apporté à la lumière et à la mise en scène.
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MAS UTD ETHZ EPFL – Launch Call for Applications 2025-2026 | The MAS UTD Call for Applications is now open for 2025-2026!
The Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design (MAS UTD) is accepting new applications from January 1-March 31 for the 2025-2026 academic year. The joint MAS programme bridges the ETH Zurich and EPFL, and is part of the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at the ETH Zurich D-ARCH and the Habitat Research Center (HRC) at the EPFL ENAC. Participants of his one-year, full-time postgraduate programme receive a 60 ECTS joint degree, the “MAS ETH EPFL UTD”.
The future of the urban engages social and environmental imaginaries, which now extend beyond-the-city and beyond-the-human. Rather than an object, the territory becomes a subject in dialogue with other subjects, and space becomes an agent of socioecological change. The urban and territorial project is understood as a possibility to explore common epistemic horizons and new biopolitical paradigms. The MAS programme embraces such a transition as a field of critical and imaginative investigation based on the principles of social and environmental equity and justice. Engaging with notions of transformation, reuse, regeneration, reparation, and transition of habitats and ecologies, the MAS deploys the urban and territorial project as the crucial field of knowledge production across scales.
For further information concerning the programme, tuition fees, and how to apply, please check our link on bio or contact us: Info-masutd@ethz.ch
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Image 1 & 2 – ETH Architecture of Territory and Goda Budvytytė, 2024.
Photo 3 – Qianer Zhu
Photo 4 – Jeremy Waterfield
Photo 5 – Anna Karla De Almeida Santos
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MAS UTD ETHZ EPFL – Launch Call for Applications 2025-2026 | The MAS UTD Call for Applications is now open for 2025-2026!
The Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design (MAS UTD) is accepting new applications from January 1-March 31 for the 2025-2026 academic year. The joint MAS programme bridges the ETH Zurich and EPFL, and is part of the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at the ETH Zurich D-ARCH and the Habitat Research Center (HRC) at the EPFL ENAC. Participants of his one-year, full-time postgraduate programme receive a 60 ECTS joint degree, the “MAS ETH EPFL UTD”.
The future of the urban engages social and environmental imaginaries, which now extend beyond-the-city and beyond-the-human. Rather than an object, the territory becomes a subject in dialogue with other subjects, and space becomes an agent of socioecological change. The urban and territorial project is understood as a possibility to explore common epistemic horizons and new biopolitical paradigms. The MAS programme embraces such a transition as a field of critical and imaginative investigation based on the principles of social and environmental equity and justice. Engaging with notions of transformation, reuse, regeneration, reparation, and transition of habitats and ecologies, the MAS deploys the urban and territorial project as the crucial field of knowledge production across scales.
For further information concerning the programme, tuition fees, and how to apply, please check our link on bio or contact us: Info-masutd@ethz.ch
Website link - www.mas-utd.arch.ethz.ch
Image 1 & 2 – ETH Architecture of Territory and Goda Budvytytė, 2024.
Photo 3 – Qianer Zhu
Photo 4 – Jeremy Waterfield
Photo 5 – Anna Karla De Almeida Santos
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The passing of , architect and Professor at the Universidad @eadpucv in Valparaíso, Chile, marks an immense loss. As the last guardian of the legacy of the , his ethical and intellectual stance, his remarkable body of work, and his research in the in deeply inspired students of EPFL.
More than 100 students from Switzerland's three main schools - @epflarchitecture, @arch.ethz and @usi_accademia have had the opportunity to contribute to the thanks to a platform that we built together between 2013 and 2020. The ResearchPlatform, which began as a spontaneous initiative, has gradually gained the support of Swiss institutions. At the , it has led to the creation of an evolving and that addresses contemporary and innovative issues, both in terms of and .
David has left us, but his spirit lives on. Always working, always available, he taught us a precious lesson: to work progressively, weaving an unbreakable bond between design and construction. For him, was an . Designing and building were harmoniously interwoven, and all this was rooted in a profoundly .
Always open to dialogue, respectful and steadfast, he collaborated with exceptional devotion, involving us in a truly . Together, we were better than alone.
Excerpt from the tribute written by , with contributions from , , and .
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We are pleased to announce the appointment of as at EPFL ENAC Architecture. Co-founder of (DDA), she brings expertise in and . At EPFL, she will lead the laboratory and teach architectural design.
ADHER will explore the potential of existing structures as resources for contemporary architecture. By developing advanced methods and tools for analysis and design, the lab aims to highlight the transformative capacity of heritage, focusing on sustainable, context-sensitive interventions. Emphasizing a hybrid, multidisciplinary approach, ADHER investigates the restoration, adaptation, and energy performance of modern structures seeking innovative solutions that address both the preservation and functional transformation of these buildings for new uses.
Claudia’s recent work, including the for the Réhabilitation de la gare haute du téléphérique du Salève, was recognized for its ethical design and respectful integration into a protected natural site.
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