MEASURES: Acts of surveying the land
To measure assumes a distance between two or more things. It also means to establish references: between spaces, sizes, horizons. We measure, with the senses of the body, a territory that emanates from our sites in Lausanne. Starting from an origin, a distance is measured and surveyed, and a territory begins to emerge in conversation with the starting point. We produce, through surveying, a set of potentialities. Reading the land is an act of imagining.
ELEMENTS: Acts of constructive and poetic translation
From the preceding phase, the language of an intersection of materials becomes a proto-element. During this phase, your architectures are negotiated, and affinities discovered between studios and projects. A set of 1:1 details as proto-elements are constructed, with the body’s energy implicit. A story about material, territory, and the body is told. Articulation is material.
Studio Punctum began the year by surveying twelve thresholds, each nestled in that blurred zone where the private meets the public, where accessibility is replayed within every step, and where—in a city as hilly as Lausanne—the threshold sometimes becomes the only moment when the horizontality is restored. Based on careful measurements, they imagined a gesture of habitation that reveals the discreet power of these in-between spaces, where passage becomes space.
Students
Oscar Allan, Dune Bachelard, Sera Benzaken, Luna Berno, Romain Cerise, Zaïra Chitou, Antony Coppa, Lucan Curtis, Axelle Evéquoz, David Ferreira, Ivan Giorgis, Ana Jutzi, Maven Katchamakov, Leonardo Kleysteuber, Lily Mancheron, Thomas Nguyen, Lexane Pahud, Enzo Rossi, Esther Schneider, Mathias Schütz, Naomi Thévenaz, Kira Tijs & Claire Vianin.
Studio Director
Annabelle Thüring
Student Assistant
Joseph Mazière
Y1 Team
Nikhil Calas, Laurent Chassot, Augustin Clément, Rosa Climent, Dieter Dietz, Capucine Fouquin, Matthieu Friedli, Nessim Kaufmann, Romain Masoni, Bastian Marzoli, Manuel Potterat, Yann Salzmann, Sara Sherif, Annabelle Thüring, Alejandro Varela Lopez