Rolex Learning Center under the moon.
Architectes : SANAA
architecture
25EPFL TERRITORIAL ACUPUNCTURE
Fall semester at @epfl_architecture, rethinking the potential of public spaces as places of encounter in Aurigeno, Valle Maggia, Ticino, 2025.
Documents from the second semester phase INTUITION: re-imagining the public spaces of Aurigeno through a territorial strategy and reflected in punctual interventions.
Student works by Diane Gasser, Éloïse Fortin, Eléonore Robin, Emile Cornebois, Helori Saout, Ivan Serrano Herrero, Kari Chen, Louis Baldyr-Moulinier, Louis Fillistorf, Luisa Heining, Luisa Luther, Marwan Abansir, Mohamad Ali El Mawla, Nathan Wanner, Nora Guigues, Ostap Pshyk, Paul Delort Laval, Thomas Brütsch, Victor Stasik, Zoé Aymon.
Studio of Visiting Professors Rina Rolli and Tiziano Schürch.
Assistant Blerta Axhija @blerta_axhija
architecture
25EPFL TERRITORIAL ACUPUNCTURE
Fall semester at @epfl_architecture, rethinking the potential of public spaces as places of encounter in Aurigeno, Valle Maggia, Ticino, 2025.
Documents from the second semester phase INTUITION: re-imagining the public spaces of Aurigeno through a territorial strategy and reflected in punctual interventions.
Student works by Diane Gasser, Éloïse Fortin, Eléonore Robin, Emile Cornebois, Helori Saout, Ivan Serrano Herrero, Kari Chen, Louis Baldyr-Moulinier, Louis Fillistorf, Luisa Heining, Luisa Luther, Marwan Abansir, Mohamad Ali El Mawla, Nathan Wanner, Nora Guigues, Ostap Pshyk, Paul Delort Laval, Thomas Brütsch, Victor Stasik, Zoé Aymon.
Studio of Visiting Professors Rina Rolli and Tiziano Schürch.
Assistant Blerta Axhija @blerta_axhija
architecture
25EPFL TERRITORIAL ACUPUNCTURE
Fall semester at @epfl_architecture, rethinking the potential of public spaces as places of encounter in Aurigeno, Valle Maggia, Ticino, 2025.
Documents from the second semester phase INTUITION: re-imagining the public spaces of Aurigeno through a territorial strategy and reflected in punctual interventions.
Student works by Diane Gasser, Éloïse Fortin, Eléonore Robin, Emile Cornebois, Helori Saout, Ivan Serrano Herrero, Kari Chen, Louis Baldyr-Moulinier, Louis Fillistorf, Luisa Heining, Luisa Luther, Marwan Abansir, Mohamad Ali El Mawla, Nathan Wanner, Nora Guigues, Ostap Pshyk, Paul Delort Laval, Thomas Brütsch, Victor Stasik, Zoé Aymon.
Studio of Visiting Professors Rina Rolli and Tiziano Schürch.
Assistant Blerta Axhija @blerta_axhija
architecture
25EPFL TERRITORIAL ACUPUNCTURE
Fall semester at @epfl_architecture, rethinking the potential of public spaces as places of encounter in Aurigeno, Valle Maggia, Ticino, 2025.
Documents from the second semester phase INTUITION: re-imagining the public spaces of Aurigeno through a territorial strategy and reflected in punctual interventions.
Student works by Diane Gasser, Éloïse Fortin, Eléonore Robin, Emile Cornebois, Helori Saout, Ivan Serrano Herrero, Kari Chen, Louis Baldyr-Moulinier, Louis Fillistorf, Luisa Heining, Luisa Luther, Marwan Abansir, Mohamad Ali El Mawla, Nathan Wanner, Nora Guigues, Ostap Pshyk, Paul Delort Laval, Thomas Brütsch, Victor Stasik, Zoé Aymon.
Studio of Visiting Professors Rina Rolli and Tiziano Schürch.
Assistant Blerta Axhija @blerta_axhija
architecture
On Thursday 20.11 Estefania Mompean Botias will publicly defend her doctoral research entitled:
Architectures of Emergency
Sentinel Attentions and Relational Governance in a Rapidly Changing World
We are living in an age increasingly shaped by a continuous and constructed condition of emergency. Climate disruption, systemic inequality, forced displacement, and ecological degradation are not anomalies but interwoven dynamics that define the present. Emergency has become foundational—an organizing framework that governs how we perceive, inhabit, and respond to a changing world.
Architectures of Emergency examines how emergency is not only managed but actively constructed—with the complicity of architecture, urbanism, and design—as it is sensed, spatialized, and institutionalized across scales.
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The presentation will be held in English and will take place at Archizoom at 16:00. Feel very welcome to join us!
For those who wants to attend online, it is possible via the following link: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/61749044521
@epflarchitecture @epflenac @archizoomepfl
Pour une densification qualitative des friches urbaines
Dr. Sophie Lufkin, collaboratrice scientifique au sein du Laboratoire d’architecture et technologies durables (LAST), a été invitée à partager son expertise dans le cadre de l’émission télévisée « Couleurs locales », diffusée sur la RTS 1.
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/pour-une-densification-qualitative-des-friches-urb/
@last_epfl @epflarchitecture @epflenac @rts @radiotelevisionsuisse
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The village in a planimetric view 🤍
zürich student drawing illustration masters life design architects architecture
Tout ce qui ne devait jamais être montré.
The Competition / Angel Borrego Cubero / Espagne – Suisse / 2013 / 120’
Immersion dans les ateliers d’architecture de Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster et Dominique Perrault lors d’un concours international.
Coulisses explosives, pression et ego démesurés : tout ce qui ne devait jamais être montré.
Haletant. Subversif.
@cinemalagrange @galactica_production
Déclivités urbaines
Nicolas Bassand, chargé de cours à la Haute école de paysage, d’ingénierie et d’architecture de Genève (HEPIA), était l’invité de l’atelier du Prof. Emmanuel Rey du Laboratoire d’architecture et technologies durables (LAST) pour parler de différentes formes d’habitat collectif sur des sites en pente. Intitulée « Déclivités urbaines. Paysages résidentiels en situation de pente », sa conférence a permis aux étudiantes et étudiants de découvrir plusieurs projets contemporains se confrontant aux enjeux spécifiques de sites urbains marqués par des dénivelés importants.
@epflarchitecture @last_epfl @nicolasbassand
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👉https://actu.epfl.ch/news/declivites-urbaines/
SCHOOL LECTURE 6/7
Tuesday, November 14, 6:30 pm
COMMUNITY VOL.1
Seven exemplary projects and case studies
WEYELL ZIPSE ARCHITEKTEN
COME IN! GUGGACH PRIMARY SCHOOL IN ZURICH
The Guggach Primary School experiments with transformative spatial qualities: its iconic central foyer is designed as an intermediate climate zone that adapts to the changing seasons. Open in summer and enclosed in winter its climate is regulated through manually operated sliding gates and a greenhouse roof. The foyer's three-storey atrium offers open, flexible spaces with a fluid perception, whose use can be continuously re-defined. The lecture will focus on the question of how this space fosters the creation of community within the school and the surrounding neighborhood.
is an architectural practice founded in 2016 in Basel by Christian Weyell and Kai Zipse. Both partners have previously taught at ETH Zurich and were appointed guest professors at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2024. The practice was nominated for the Swiss Art Awards in 2021, the DAM Preis 2024 for Architecture in Germany, and received the Best architects 24 award in Gold, as well as the Golden Rabbit for the award ‹Die Besten 2024› for the best building of the year in Switzerland.
Both Christian Weyell and Kai Zipse were appointed members of the FSA (Federation of Swiss Architects) in 2024.
Portrait by Weyell Zipse
Image credits by Daisuke Hirabayashi
School Lecture Series
@epflarchitecture
@weyellzipse
Find the recordings of the lectures on our YouTube channel EPFL Architecture
Graphic design
@romankarrer @timetravel3000
@epflarchitecture @epflenac @epflstudents @archizoom
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Jeux d’échelle
Han van de Wetering, fondateur de l’atelier Corso à Zurich, était l’invité de l’atelier du Prof. Emmanuel Rey du Laboratoire d’architecture et technologies durables (LAST) pour parler de son travail d’urbaniste à travers deux projets de planification communale. Intitulée « Jeux d’échelle : Entre urbanisme et projet architectural », sa conférence a permis aux étudiantes et étudiants de découvrir des projets de planification urbaine pour les villes de Zoug et Saint-Gall intégrant notamment les multiples enjeux liées la pente.
@last_epfl @epflarchitecture
@Han van de Wetering @atelier corso
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💡https://actu.epfl.ch/news/jeux-d-echelle
Transparency and curvilinear forms are major challenges when drawing greenhouses and other glass-iron buildings. The latter is brilliantly solved in this drawing of Laeken’s Winter Garden (1874–1876). Designed by the Belgian architect Alphonse Balat (1818–1895) for King Leopold II, this 57-metre-wide, 25-metre-high rotunda, is part of the complex of the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken.
① ② ③ Drawing of the central building.
④ Serres royales de Laeken, 1913, Collection Belfius Banque - Académie royale de Belgique - ARB-urban.brussels
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Second “chapter” of Greenhouse Studies.
Here it goes a photo recap of the first weeks of the design studio Greenhouse Studies II at @east.laboratory @epflarchitecture EPFL. Needless to say how thrilling it is to drive this design studio on a such exciting theme 🌿 Great energy and super group of learners tackling this theme!
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Greenhouse Studies II
Design Studio Bachelor 5 and Master 2 - FS25 EPFL
Instructors: @_tiagopborges_ @frohlich_martin @luciano.antonietti
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Philip Miller (1691–1771) was a botanist and chief gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden @chelsea_physic_garden for a significant period (1722 to 1770). In his book “The Gardeners' Dictionary”, Miller uses this image to illustrate the ideal greenhouse. In this configuration, the two wings — artificial heated stoves — are equipped with flues that ensure the back wall remains heated. Having two wings allowed the cultivation of different types of plants accordingly to their levels of 'hardiness', as Miller explains. The wings could also be divided to provide different levels of warmth. In the area behind the stoves, Miller proposes the construction of an additional row of rooms, or sheds, that will serve both as storage space and, primarily, as a buffer zone. This strategy protected the backwall from the cold and reduced fuel consumption. In Miller's design, these rooms doubled the volume of the main rooms of the greenhouse. This 'ideal' case is an excellent example of the tripartite model seen in many other greenhouses of that period▪️🔲▪️
Caption from the image:
A. The ground plan of the green-house
B.B. The ground plan of the two stoves
C.C.C. The sheds behind of the green-house and stoves
D.D. The passage of communication between the green-house and stoves, where the stairs are placed which lead to the rooms over the green-house.
E.E. The section of the flues in the back of the stoves.
F. The upright of the treen-house and stoves.
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Inktober 2025, day 31, Award 🥇
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Looking back at the remarkable work produced by fellow students provides a rich source of inspiration and insight for ongoing projects. The platform Living Archives offers a great insight into last year’s semester exhibition and celebrates the ongoing exploration and critical questioning within the architecture design studios at EPFL Architecture.
The photos capture key moments of the exhibition, showcasing the diverse range of student works presented by each design studio. Projects were displayed through a variety of media, including physical models, drawings, photographs, and digital renderings, reflecting the innovative and interdisciplinary approaches explored throughout the semester.
↗︎ Presentations of the design studio topics on this page: https://architecturehub.epfl.ch/en/studios-courses/
↗︎ Online Project Exhibition https://livingarchives.epfl.ch/projects/?type=Project&year=2025&academic=Spring&project_type=0&sort=date%E2%96%BC
Studios:
@alice_epfl @domestic.city.lab @ibois_epfl @lab_u_epfl @last_epfl @riot_epfl @texas.studio.epfl @mxd_epfl @antoineiweins @noemiezurbriggen @kinkerlizchen @east.laboratory @adherstudio
Guest studios:
@assemble_studio_epfl @assembleofficial @vervoz @piovenefabi @studio.gaymenzel @gaymenzel @uncertainconditions @truwantrodet @atelier_waldrap @waldrapzurich @fala.atelier
Images: Juliette Lafrasse and Léo Perrin-Livenais
@epflarchitecture @epflenac @epflcampus @epflstudents
PARCOURS MENTA
Parcours Menta est un projet réalisé en étroite co-élaboration entre ALICE et l’équipe de recherche de Villes et Santé Mentale, un Living Lab porté par l’université de Neuchâtel et le CHUV visant à développer une ville plus favorable à la santé mentale et capable de promouvoir le rétablissement de personnes vivant avec un diagnostic de psychose.
L’équipe de recherche s’est associée au laboratoire ALICE pour développer une intervention portant sur les espaces verts comme lieux refuges ou ressources. Un processus contributif de trois workshops regroupant à parts égales des patient.e.s, des chercheur.euse.s et des architectes a abouti sur l’installation du Parcours Menta, un itinéraire sensoriel implanté dans le parc Mon Repos. Cette promenade en cinq étapes stimule chacun des cinq sens du corps humain – la vue, l’ouïe, l’odorat, le toucher et le goût – afin de multiplier des points d’accroche permettant de se ressourcer physiquement mais aussi mentalement dans l’espace vert. Le parcours, ouvert au public, a été expérimenté par les patient.e.s et practicien.ne.s du groupe de recherche entre juin et novembre 2025.
Participant.e.s ALICE : Dieter Dietz, Antoine Foehrenbacher, Raúl Hansra Sartorius, Claire Logoz, Loïc Mundinger
Participant.e.s VILLES ET SANTE MENTALE : Philippe Conus, Ola Söderström, Dr. Marc Winz, Dre. Lilith Abrahamyan Empson, Aurora Ruggeri, Jules Brischoux, Jérôme Favrod, Anastasie Jordan
Photographies: Julien Heil
Dessins et Collages: Participant.e.s
@epflarchitecture @epflenac
Inktober 2025, day 27, Onion 🧅
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We are thrilled to welcome Jean-François Cabestan for a talk on the Samaritaine and its transformation as part of our class: Restaurer Transformer Créer: Pratiques
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Inktober 2025, day 26, Puzzling 🧩
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Iron and glass meet straw - a very interesting adjustable shading system for greenhouses, using straw mats, from 1858.
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Inktober 2025, day 20, Rivals 🐓⏰
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