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ROOMS / studio ORDINAIRE x PIGMENTO / ALICE
The ALICE Year One (Y1) program at EPFL explores architecture as a collective, process-oriented, and situated practice, grounded in learning-by-doing and collaboration. Rather than solving predefined problems, students engage in architectural gestures rooted in the living world, seeking respectful relationships between humans, materials, and environments. Structured through successive cycles (FRAGMENTS, ROOMS, PLAY), the pedagogy emphasizes resonance between knowledge, place, and practice, aiming to reconfigure the discipline’s values beyond performance and profit. Architecture here becomes a shared process of learning, where designing, building, and inhabiting merge.
ROOMS: Acts of harnessing and activating fields of potentialities through intervention
We activate the potentialities discovered in Fragments. 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.
Students
Aurélie Addor, Hippolyte Ageron, Markos Angelos, Marion Buchanan, Rayane Chételat, Rose De Montfalcon De Flaxieu, Nora Dietrich, Deborah Dörfliger, Daniel Garcia Müller, Félix Grandjean Dalla Torre, Ambre Grept, Pierre-Yves Keller, Sarah Laurent, Ghida Mcheik, Elsa Michellod, Luca Ramelli, Tatiana Rey, André Rocha Do Rosario, Kevin Toan, Lilly Troeltsch, Lucie Uwaifo & Melisa Yolal, Akalya Arul, Dylan Broccard, Maia Castiglioni, Matthieu Chantelot, Qinkai Chen, Lola Corriveau, Elena Deluche, Romane Descombaz, Simon Elmaleh, Ella Fragnière, Adrien Gasser, Florian Glaus, Mathilde Goetz, Bastian Imboden, Laura Indermuehle, Axelle Kobzos, Albane Lebouleur, Neyla Mezgrane, Anne-Fleur Palthey, Carla Pereira Vasconcelos Leite, Loan Pfändler, Lucas Pons, Sol Rosspeintner Almansa, Xavier Scherwey & Tommaso Verde.
Studio Directors
Rosa Climent - Yann Salzmann
Student Assistant
Louis Crisinel - Sarah Carroz
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