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Details Entwurfsprogramm – Herbst Semester 2026

 

 

 

Angaben zur Professur

 

 

Lehrstuhl 

Gastdozentur O. Lütjens / T. Padmanabhan

 

 

Typ 

Gastdozentur Entwurf

 

 

Standort 

HIL

 

 

Webseite 

arch.ethz.ch/departement/faculty/visiting-faculty.html

 

 

Assistierende 

Pauline Delorme, Jacob Höppner

 

 

Kontakt E-Mail 

hoeppner@arch.ethz.ch

 

 

 

 

Angaben zur Entwurfsklasse

 

 

Typ 

Entwurf V-IX

 

 

Thema 

BIG LIFE

 

 

Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes 

Ever increasing in size, Zurich’s cooperative housing projects are reaching the scale of urban megastructures. Yet, their sheer size rarely testifies to their social achievement or embodies the courageous gesture that recalls their historic legacy. While large-scale architecture is often associated with power, speculation, and individualism, we want to gain a new understanding of big urban form. We want to embrace the large scale and express the ambition of the collective.   In our design studio BIG LIFE we will design large cooperative housing projects that reclaim Zurich’s urban skyline and occupy a place of pride in the city’s public consciousness. We want to question the hermetic nature of the heroic by drawing critical inspiration from late-modern, Metabolist, and non-canonical architecture, and contemporary art practices. We will speculate on open forms and composite figures that allow for growth and transformation, exploring mass as a formal and social condition.

 

 

Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte 

Entwurf, Konstruktion, Staedtebau, Landschaftsarchitektur, Handwerk, Visualisierungen, Wohnungsbau, Modellbau, Fotografie

 

 

Lernziele 

Ever increasing in size, Zurich’s cooperative housing projects are reaching the scale of urban megastructures. Yet, their sheer size rarely testifies to their social achievement or embodies the courageous gesture that recalls their historic legacy. While large-scale architecture is often associated with power, speculation, and individualism, we want to gain a new understanding of big urban form. We want to embrace the large scale and express the ambition of the collective.   In our design studio BIG LIFE we will design large cooperative housing projects that reclaim Zurich’s urban skyline and occupy a place of pride in the city’s public consciousness. We want to question the hermetic nature of the heroic by drawing critical inspiration from late-modern, Metabolist, and non-canonical architecture, and contemporary art practices. We will speculate on open forms and composite figures that allow for growth and transformation, exploring mass as a formal and social condition.

 

 

LV-Nr. des Entwurfs 

052-1103-26

 

 

Unterrichts-sprache 

English

 

 

Arbeitsweise 

Nur Gruppenarbeit

 

 

Daten Zwischenkritiken 

 

 

Datum Schlusskritik 

16.12.2026

 

 

Einführungs-veranstaltung 

15.09.2026, 9:30 Uhr, HIL D15

 

 

Zusätzliche Kosten 

CHF 250 (Schätzung, ohne allfällige Kosten für Modellbau und Seminarwoche)

 

 

Verfügbare Plätze 

26

 

 

Plakat des Entwurfs-programmes 

Plakat ansehen (PDF Datei)

 

 

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