Angaben zur Professur

Lehrstuhl 

Professur A. Caruso

Typ 

Professur für Architektur und Konstruktion

Standort 

ONA

Webseite 

www.caruso.arch.ethz.ch

Assistierende 

Emilie Appercé, Lucia Bernini, Tibor Bielicky, Yosuke Nakamoto

Kontakt E-Mail 

bielicky@arch.ethz.ch

Angaben zur Entwurfsklasse

Typ 

Entwurf V-IX

Thema 

The Village

Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes 

The continuous asphalt and endless basements of Oerlikon seal the ground, so that the summer heat cannot dissipate in the inferno of the contemporary urban environment. The city, with its concentration of wealth and scarcity of land is melting down; do the tensions and incipient violence that make the city exciting also contain the seeds of its ruin? With multicentric societies reflected in its federal politics, Switzerland’s infrastructure and resources are more evenly spread over its terrain than in most countries. The rural still encompasses diverse economies that include industry, agriculture and tourism. Often, the villages and towns of the un-city have had a vibrant past, so that today one finds underused buildings and infrastructure that could become activated by new ideas for society. Contemporary approaches to planning usually encourage the gentrification and the suburbanisation of the rural. Instead, architects and their clients could be working to amplify and consolidate the lack of density, the slower pace of life and the possibility of more balanced ideas of settlement inherent in these places. This semester we will work in the village of Ennenda, a place with a long history and a diverse legacy of buildings. While agriculture is very present in the village and its surroundings, factories that are part of supply chains within the Glarus valley, employ almost one thousand people. The village has empty and underused structures, but demand for new housing and workspace is typically addressed by demolition and replacement with generic models from the urban agglomeration. We will make projects that challenge these lazy assumptions and by engaging with the networks and histories that underly the village’s substance, demonstrating the enormous potential in repairing and adding to what already exists.

Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte 

Entwurf, Konstruktion, Handwerk

Lernziele 

Qualification to control the design process increasingly independent and with sole responsibility and to find to an individual design methodology and attitude.

LV-Nr. des Entwurfs 

052-1142-25

Zusätzliche integrierte Disziplin(en) 

Construction, Writing

Unterrichts-sprache 

English

Arbeitsweise 

Nur Gruppenarbeit

Daten Zwischenkritiken 

12.02.2025 / 16.04.2025 (tbc)

Datum Schlusskritik 

27.05.2025

Einführungs-veranstaltung 

18.02.2025, 10:00 am, ONA E30

Zusätzliche Kosten 

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

Verfügbare Plätze 

34

Plakat des Entwurfs-programmes 

Plakat ansehen (PDF Datei)

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