Angaben zur Professur

Lehrstuhl 

Professur H. Klumpner

Typ 

Professur für Architektur und Städtebau

Standort 

ONA

Webseite 

www.klumpner.arch.ethz.ch

Assistierende 

Anne Graupner, Diogo Figueiredo

Kontakt E-Mail 

graupner@arch.ethz.ch

Angaben zur Entwurfsklasse

Typ 

Entwurf V-IX

Thema 

WasteX Co-imagining a circular city framework

Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes 

Let’s build a circular city, transiting towards a zero-waste community. The promise of unlimited growth perpetuates our culture of unsustainable material flows and the production of junk products. Could we value resources, act socio-ecological responsive, and design a Circuit-Workshop prototype into a system of productive public spaces, as commons for work and community? The pace of technological change makes much of our model of urbanization socially, economically, and environmentally unsustainable. Paradoxically today, the amount of waste produced, energy consumed, surface sealed, and water consumed per capita is considered an indicator of our junk society's wealth. Linked to the dynamics of ongoing globalization, economic growth pressures, increasing living standards, and throw-away product cycles, societies perpetuate interwoven cultures of unsustainable consumption- disposable loops. Operating within this system, we are aware of this paradox, where an increasing GDP weighs more than the degradation of the environment, the depletion of natural resources, levels of education, rampant inequalities, and the wellbeing of societies at large. The consequences of resource extraction, waste production, and the longevity of our debris leave us with a feeling of powerlessness when the world's ecofootprint is one and a half times more than the earth can provide us with. Invited by the Mayor of Santiago de Chile and Barranquilla, we are engaged in two vibrant neighborhoods, working with people and decision-makers on the ground, dealing with the city's solid waste, housing, and social justice challenges, upscaling them to other neighborhoods elsewhere. If we are to save ourselves from the amount of waste generated by society, we have choices; to go from talking about the abstract goals of UN, SDGs to developing concrete design projects for implementation that reach environmental social, and governmental targets.Extensive circular material flows observed in global south cities are often linked to poverty but have proven effective in addressing value preservation, scoring on low carbon footprint, and adding value to the circular city model. Can we as architects facilitate and co-create radical transitions from linear flows of production, consumption, landfilling or incineration, to systems of circularity and self-sustainability? Can new relationships and references between periphery and inner-city support existing initiatives, so communities can make use of their resources, human capital, and networks? We start by revising our understanding of what constitutes our very own definition of waste and abundance. From local to global production and disposal, we will question notions of durability, ownership, the use of space and buildings, regenerative and geopolitical systems. We will investigate local economies, supply- production chains, mediate the redistribution of resources, and discuss concepts of durability. The design challenge concentrates on qualitative and quantitative data of material cycles in a neighborhood and redesigning existing infrastructures of solid waste collection stations into a public covered and open space. Interlinking formal and informal economies and waste management systems, the design of prototypical urban infrastructures can make the collection for landfills and incineration a past practice. We will simulate the use, and test the results to their validity in other neighborhoods and income groups combining social and environmental programs into a new building typology of a post-waste design network. In solidarity with people on the ground, we will define challenges and opportunities, creating circular scenarios that respect, enhance and propose new material loops. Linking formal and informal systems connected to waste, the production and redistribution of materials, as second resources and the knowledge of circular systems in cities is the pretext for reviewing Cybernetic principles of Stanford Beer for president Salvador Allende and the need for visual representation. Conclusion This Studio is the opportunity to be part of a design movement articulating frameworks for innovative neighborhoods. From waste to resource, the scalability and transferability of interlinked systems to other geographical zones can address the urgent need for long-term circularity towards zero-waste cities.

Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte 

Entwurf, Staedtebau, Landschaftsarchitektur, Modellbau, Visualisierungen

Lernziele 

Students immersed in our “method-design”, will develop a system of individual prototypical design projects. We moderate and guide a trans-scalar understanding of architecture, urban design, and planning, developing collaboratively a baseline scenario. Research by mapping, identifying, reading context, existing and future challenges and opportunities, assist students taking on roles of decision-making stakeholders, to Co-creative translate their findings and resources into different scenarios. We synthesize the scenarios in design strategies and urbanistic concepts, translating them into an evidence-based, prototypical architectural project intervention. This prototype responds to dynamic real-world processes, over time and space. We frame urban design projects as a narrative, that is consequently visualized and communicated in analog and digital graphic and model representations. The concept project will be tested and upscaled through urbanistic design-policy recommendations within overlapping spatial and programmatic systems and material propositions into an architectural relevant pilot project. Based on our Chair's “Urban Stories” lecture series, students will use the reference framework of the urban toolbox and our catalog of evidence-based design examples of what works and what are the trade-offs in the complexities of a specific environment. Design solutions are responding to the site's environmental, social, and governance challenges and context. At the intersection of urban -and landscape design, and public arts, we envision trans-scalar dynamic developments and radical urban imaginaries for societal transformation. "(...) we believe that we have enough buildings, enough construction, enough infrastructure. And it is now time to consolidate it and find the qualities within the built. This is not against future production, it is more about a consideration of what we really want in cities." AD Interviews: Hubert Klumpner / 2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, We will discuss spatial processes following our practical, real-life experiences, consolidating along a sequence of transformative steps of short-term tactics for long-term strategies and value production. We will scrutinize the need to re-evaluate neighborhoods' transformations initiated by art, popular culture, local participation, densifying social interaction, and place-making with our concern to avoid displacing existing populations. Urban- and Landscape Design can create a measurable positive impact in cities by caring for social justice, health, and wellbeing in times of climate change. The development of a robust framework enables regeneration processes with long-term operational, environmental and social benefits in response to global, local, and site-specific challenges. The role of architects is to imagine and model sustainable urban scenarios recognizing urban corridors as new possibilities and lifelines to impact meaningful and multidimensional transformative design strategies. For every city, design is about different things; what remains are the values, choices, opportunities, and engaged societies and how we realize and implement a concrete project in a city neighborhood relevant to our care for earth.

LV-Nr. des Entwurfs 

052-1140-22

Zusätzliche integrierte Disziplin(en) 

Integrated Discipline Planning | ECTS Credits – 3

Unterrichts-sprache 

German, English, Spanish and Portuguese

Arbeitsweise 

Einzel- und Gruppenarbeit, davon 3 bis 4 Wochen Gruppenarbeit

Daten Zwischenkritiken 

5-6.04.2022

Datum Schlusskritik 

31.05 and 01.06.2022

Einführungs-veranstaltung 

22.02.2022, 9h30am, ONA E25, Studio space

Zusätzliche Kosten 

CHF 0 (Schätzung, ohne allfällige Seminarwochenkosten)

Verfügbare Plätze 

24

Plakat des Entwurfs-programmes 

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