ROOMS / studio FAIRE / ALICE
Acts of harnessing and activating fields of potentialities through intervention
We activate the potentialities discovered in Territories-Measures. We design an intervention that responds to, and resonates with, this reading of the territory’s relationships to the body. Your architecture produces a resonant three-way conversation between the origin, the territory, and the body, emanating program. Imagining requires articulation.
In a constantly evolving ecological crisis, our relationship with water is being called into question. Seen as both a resource and a threat, water is increasingly invisible, disappearing in a fraction of a second and travelling underground. This phenomenon, combined with the impermeability of cities, breaks the cycle of water, which can no longer infiltrate, exfiltrate deep down, evaporate and transpire through plants. This deprives us of considerable potential. Its evolution holds the seeds of new prospects for water in our towns and landscapes. We want to make water visible again.
How can we broaden and change our understanding of water in an urban context? How can we reintegrate the water cycle into this context? How can we include not only infrastructure, but also social, cultural and biological aspects in our relationship with water?
The backbone of the studio is water, on the Place de la Riponne: on, in, around, above and below. Where does the water come from? Where does the water go? We’re looking at how architecture can mediate, act as an in-between.
Students Claudia Adames Batista, Ghazel Alnsour, Bérénice Bläsi, Iago Duqué, Delphin Gouiller, Nathan Kaeser, Mariam Khraisat, Léna Latham, Matteo Miele, Inès Monnerat, Johann Rey, Margot Ruch, Eléonore Schüpbach, Teo Spadanuda, Danilo Spohr, Noémie Stalder, Justina-Maria Taran, Yann Tièche, Julia Tomas, Emma Trachsel, Mathieu Viquerat, Emilie Walpen, Djamila Zünd
Studio Director
Nikhil Calas
Student Assistant
Malak Abdelhady
Y1 Team
Román Alonso Gómez, Nikhil Calas, Laurent Chassot, Rosa Climent, Dieter Dietz, Ophélie Dozat, Capucine Fouquin, Arianna Frascoli, Carla Frick-Cloupet, Matthieu Friedli, Nessim Kaufmann, Bastian Marzoli, Manuel Potterat, Yann Salzmann, Laila Seewang, Annabelle Thüring