AFFORDANCES / studio FAIRE X LEAKAGE / 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.
Students
Jacob Allaire, Lise Allenbach, Eden Amdemeskel, Samuel Aufdereggen, Natasza Bunoan, Sofia Di Giacomo, Inès Dommen, Dylan Dufour, Eva Favre, Maëlis Forand, Augustin Fréchin, Achille Frund, Pietro Genitrini, Lucas Gentile, Luna Gravier, Agathe Henriot, Farida Ibrahim, Laura Jaeger, Mathis Jecker, Petar Micevic, Pauline Misson, Clara Morier, Tobie Nicolet, Belina Osmani, Lino Savelli, Esteban Vasquez & Anna Zermatten, Kiara Abilleira Fernández, Luca Aeschlimann, Amélie Besnard, Massimo Camerin, Miraç Can, Joaquim Cantor Miranda, Léo Fontannaz, Martina Gonzalez Perez, Valentina Kosumi, Emma Lachenal, Thomas Manso Neves, Chiara McLaughlin, Emile Morand, Sarah Mounier, Nhu Nguyen, Donatella Ordulu, Robin Perrot, Antonino Sestito, Samanta Sinanaj, Clara Suinat, Nora Windholz & Nemir Wissam.
Studio Directors
Sara Sherif & Nikhil Calas
Student Assistants
Arthur Douillet & Laura Garcés
Y1 Team
Nikhil Calas, Laurent Chassot, Augustin Clément, Rosa Climent, Dieter Dietz, Matthieu Friedli, Flavio Gorgone, Nessim Kaufmann, Romain Masoni, Bastian Marzoli, Estefania Mompean Botias, Manuel Potterat, Yann Salzmann, Sara Sherif, Annabelle Thüring