Angaben zur Professur

Lehrstuhl 

Gastdozentur L. A. Leger (BAST)

Typ 

Gastdozentur Entwurf

Standort 

HIL

Webseite 

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

Assistierende 

Oliver Wyss , Béla Dalcher

Kontakt E-Mail 

bureau@bast0.com

Angaben zur Entwurfsklasse

Typ 

Entwurf V-IX

Thema 

O05

Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes 

CONTEXT In the current context of resource scarcity and urban sprawl, the adaptive reuse of existing buildings represents a fundamental response. Whether aimed at improving thermal performance or reallocating uses, adaptive reuse is an essential architectural posture that contemporary practitioners, theorists, and academics are actively exploring. As we observe and experience firsthand with each passing season, climatic conditions are changing rapidly. Most of the buildings we inhabit need to be updated to meet these new constraints: building less, reducing energy consumption in existing structures, and adapting what already exists to a changing climate. Construction history reveals that before the advent of fossil fuels, builders knew how to design structures that took full advantage of their natural surroundings. Passive construction and thermal strategies responded to local specificities and were rooted in the craftsmanship and know-how of their respective eras. Subsequently, the construction methods and thermal design of most contemporary buildings were driven by a different logic—industrial development and energy abundance—resulting in a 20th-century building stock that is now largely obsolete. This studio is a pedagogical experiment addressing how existing buildings can adapt to these transformations, identifying the structural and thermal interventions that can be implemented. Approaching rehabilitation through the lens of thermal performance, projects will develop strategies inspired by historical and vernacular bioclimatic design. METHODOLOGY The semester aims to enable students to master the key thermal principles at play in a building. Initially, the focus will be on understanding the behavior and qualities of an existing building through critical analysis—examining climatic context, construction systems, façade features, and usage patterns. These elements influence the building's thermal behavior and serve as the starting point for defining new comfort conditions. The first step involves analyzing a selection of building typologies in the Zurich region. Students will visit the chosen buildings to conduct site surveys, determine actual space usage, understand construction typologies, and characterize materials. They will then analyze these buildings using thermal assessment tools to understand their current performance and identify the specific challenges their own projects must address. Subsequently, students will analyze vernacular thermal strategies to evaluate their relevance to the issues raised during the initial site analysis. This research will provide insight into the underlying bioclimatic principles and the physical phenomena governing them. The intervention hypotheses developed by the students will stem directly from this research. Projects will focus on experimenting with thermal strategies inspired by vernacular architecture as concrete responses to the identified challenges. Through an iterative process, proposed interventions will undergo quantitative analysis to measure the actual impact of the implemented strategies. These approaches will be grounded in contemporary expertise, experimenting with new construction methods and modern materials.

Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte 

Entwurf, Konstruktion, Handwerk, thermal conception

Lernziele 

PEDAGOGICAL GOALS Learn to survey an existing building and analyze its constructive assemblies. Understand the core principles of building thermal behavior. Adopt a critical posture on the concepts of thermal comfort. Formulate pragmatic intervention scenarios based on objective data. Develop a constructive approach that serves as the basis of the project. Develop a consistent construction logic at every scale Explore working hypotheses through an iterative process. Work in teams to confront diverse perspectives.

LV-Nr. des Entwurfs 

052-1123-26

Unterrichts-sprache 

English, French

Arbeitsweise 

Group work only

Daten Zwischenkritiken 

29-30/09, 17-18/11

Datum Schlusskritik 

15-16/12

Einführungs-veranstaltung 

15/09 HIL C15

Zusätzliche Kosten 

CHF 100 (Schätzung, ohne allfällige Kosten für Modellbau und Seminarwoche)

Verfügbare Plätze 

26

Plakat des Entwurfs-programmes 

Plakat ansehen (PDF Datei)