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Central Park Brasilândia
(2024)How can the de-industrialization of the neighborhood, Brasilândia, provide an opportunity to design a new centrality? How can we transform an abandoned mine into a central park? How can this prototype be evaluated and upscaled into a city-scale green system? São Paulo, the second-largest city in the Western Hemisphere, is known for its diverse social, environmental, governmental, and architectonic inequalities. Socially, Brasilândia ...Educational Material -
Flood Risk in Humanitarian Settlements: Compendium of Mitigation Measures
(2023)The compendium of flood risk mitigation measures aims to support UNHCR field staff, partners, and other practitioners with an overview of adequate risk mitigation measures against flooding in humanitarian settlements.This compendium supports flood risk mitigation humanitarian settlements by presenting adequate flood risk mitigation measures alongside technical drawings and good practices. It has been developed based on a systematic ...Educational Material -
Agritopia
(2023)Our first concrete utopia will be an AGRITOPIA. The recurrent focus on agriculture in this studio is not accidental—we believe that the crisis of our imagination is reinforced by the separation of the urban and the rural in our culture, and by continuing to think the future only in terms of urban life disconnected from the land and nature. To imagine a different urban future for Zürich, we will work on agricultural territories that lie ...Educational Material -
Next Madrasa
(2023)Whilst cities contribute to the highest CO2 footprints, they also hold the potential to most effectively bend the carbon curve and take Climate Action in achieving the UN`S Sustainable Development Goals. Moving towards decarbonized ways of living and `Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe and resilient (SDG 11) will require behavioral and systems change in all sectors of life. Access to quality education (SDG 4), co-creating ...Educational Material -
Agrarian Project
(2023)Studio Series New EcologiesAgricultural land is all around. Nearly half of the surface of the Canton of Zurich is dedicated to agriculture, yet the traditional Swiss pastoral has all but disappeared. Non-agricultural economies and ways of life have spread across the former rural areas. Much of the landscape has been homogenised through large scale commercial farming based on industrial monocultures supported by seasonal labour. Right next to agricultural fields—and ...Educational Material -
igre i grad - city games
(2023)Students will re-imagining the 1984 XIV Olympic Winter Games and the conflicts the city endured in the 1990ties urbicide (1). Both events still activate the collective memory and contemporary imaginary in Sarajevo as moments of blood, tears, and sweat (2). The spectacle of the games accounted for the concentration of the events happening at a distance of fewer than 25 km around the city, making Sarajevo a total urban experience. Re-imagining ...Educational Material -
Lectures on quantum mechanics for material scientists
(2023)When speaking of quantum mechanics, one has typically a physics or chemistry student in mind. However, research on materials is now so advanced that students of material science must be trained to understand and above all use those deepest concepts of quantum mechanics that were reserved to physics students in the past. It is along these lines that these lectures discuss the fundamental concepts of modern Quantum Physics such as the failure ...Educational Material -
Gluing from wood for structural applications - basics and selected examples
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Power to the People
(2022)Studio Series New EcologiesWho owns and controls the energy we use? The energy crisis looming over Europe this fall as a consequence of the Ukraine war has made it clear that European geopolitics and power asymmetries have been built on fossil fuels. Yet the discussions around energy transition usually revolve around reducing carbon emissions through technofix solutions, without questioning the broader politics of energy. The promise of energy transition, that ...Educational Material -
Roots
(2022)Thematic and Methodological Emphasis Urban Tool Box: Analogue and Digitial Tool Development, Architecture and Urban Design, Representation (Digital and Physical 3D-Modeling, in combination Film, and Graphic Design) Learning Objectives Students will emerge in our Chair’s “method-design” to step by step develop their individual prototypical design projects. They will address both architectural urban scales and will be guided to ...Educational Material