Name | Mr Daniel Mettler |
Address | BUK Bautechnologie u. Konstruktion ETH Zürich, HIL E 45.2 Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
Telephone | +41 44 633 28 75 |
mettler@arch.ethz.ch | |
Department | Architecture |
Relationship | Lecturer |
Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
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051-1201-18L | Integrated Discipline Construction (D.Mettler/D.Studer) Presence on the first day (initial course event) to the integrated discipline construction is compulsory for participating in this course. | 3 credits | 2U | D. Mettler, D. Studer | |
Abstract | In the context of the semester-long design projects, the reciprocity between design, construction and materiality is reinforced. One focus is the coherence of design and construction. In the process of developing a project's constructional aspects, design intentions become formulated in a more precise and binding way. | ||||
Learning objective | The integration of knowledge gained in the basic courses lends the work an additional dimension and demands of the students an increasingly integrative ability to think and design. | ||||
Content | This part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.). | ||||
Prerequisites / Notice | It is a must to take part in the introduction course to "Integrated Discipline Construction". Introduction lecture (compulsory): Wednesday 26th September 2018, 17:00 h, HIL E 8. . | ||||
052-0501-00L | Design and Construction I Project grading at semester end is based on the list of enrolments on 6th November 2018, 24:00 h (valuation date) only. Ultimate deadline to unsubscribe or enroll for the studio is 6th November 2018, 24:00 h. | 8 credits | 4V + 10G + 2U | A. Deplazes, D. Mettler, D. Studer | |
Abstract | Designing and constructing will be understood to be a complementarily complementary offer. The content and methodical foundations of design and construction are taught and deepened through lectures and exercises. | ||||
Learning objective | Understanding and dominating the methodology of designing and constructing. | ||||
Content | Lectures and exercises to achieve the methodology and ability of designing and constructing. | ||||
Lecture notes | Andrea Deplazes (Hrsg.), Constructing Architecture, From Raw Materials to Building, A Handbook, Birkhäuser, Basel Boston Berlin, 2013 | ||||
Literature | Literature will be published in the lectures. | ||||
Prerequisites / Notice | 100% of interest and engagement! | ||||
052-0533-18L | New Focal Points of Construction Does not take place this semester. | 2 credits | 2G | D. Mettler, D. Studer | |
Abstract | The elective subject "New focal points of construction" investigates the complexe interaction of construction elements by means of exemplary architectonic tender points such as base, wall, chamber, roof etc. The comparative analysis of built constructions serves as a basis for further development of hypothetical future constructions. | ||||
Learning objective | Target of the course is the understanding of the impacts of material, technology and construction to the architectural education of constructive points. With comparative analysis of built constructions of high architectonic relevance, by means of exemplary building elements such as base, wall, chamber, roof etc., the genesis of constructive building parts, the interaction of the building elements and stand of technique for the most of common constructive tender points is imparted. The conjunction to current constructive methods and basic conditions enables a critical evaluation of the constructive Status Quo within the contemporary producing architecture as well as a perspective to new konstructive education. | ||||
Content | Lecture: 1. Comparative analysis for derivation and understanding of the constructive points base, wall, chamber, roof etc. 2. Description of current level of technique, typical methods, and set of problems. 3. Final colloquiums with guests of producing and processing companies. Excercise: New formulation of a future konstructive point as a result of a diagnostic work. | ||||
052-0541-18L | Architectural Design III: Ideal Architecture - Real Architecture (E.Christ/Ch.Gantenbein) Please register (www.mystudies.ethz.ch) only after the internal enrolment for the design classes (see http://www.einschreibung.arch.ethz.ch/design.php). Students who do not wish to change the design class don't have to parcitipate in the internal enrolment. Project grading at semester end is based on the list of enrolments on 6th November 2018, 24:00 h (valuation date) only. Ultimate deadline to unsubscribe or enroll for the studio is 6th November 2018, 24:00 h. | 14 credits | 4V + 14U | E. Christ, C. Kerez, D. Mettler, A. Spiro, R. Boltshauser, A. Brandlhuber, A. Brodskiy, G. A. Caminada, A. Caruso, F. Charbonnet, J. De Vylder, T. Emerson, A. Fonteyne, C. Gantenbein, A. Gigon, M. Kaijima, E. Mosayebi, M. Peter, C. Puga Larraín, D. Studer, R. A. Zuber | |
Abstract | The design process is done in three steps: 1) documentation of the example of Milan, 2) Formulating architectural principles and 3) Actual design, the project for an ideal architecture. It is not about a place, nor about a specific program, but only about the essence of the architectural form: body, space, type, structure and material. | ||||
Learning objective | Ability to systematically analyze buildings from different eras and their two- and three-dimensional representation and critical description in words. Investigation and understanding of architectural rules, qualities and principles. Acquisition of this knowledge and the ability to apply it in your own design. | ||||
Content | We start the semester with a three-day excursion to Milan, where we will use selected examples to find the basic principles of a timeless, urban architecture, ideally an ideal architecture. We are going on a journey of discovery - open and experimental, but also analytical and critical. The design process takes place in three steps: first the documentation of the Milanese example, then the formulation of architectural principles and finally, building on these principles, the actual design, the project for an ideal architecture. It is not a place and not a specific program, but exclusively the essence of the architectural form: body, space, type, structure and material. It is the most important and difficult task for any architect to find his own architectural language. Because without a repertoire of architectural vocabulary, we can also speak of images and forms, structures and principles, the architect is speechless. This language, this repertoire of architectural forms and principles is what our studio is all about: all students develop their repertoire in the course of the semester. We could also say that they are working on their own idea of an ideal architecture. What is meant by "ideal" is not only beautiful, perfect and desirable, but above all what is based on an idea. The students develop individual architectural ideas that are always available when designing. This process is supported by role models and examples. Because architecture is learned primarily by studying existing buildings and designs and translating them into their own pictures. Travel, go and look is the first step. It is crucial that we already understand this looking as a creative act. The invention results from the consideration. Documenting becomes design. And so, by dealing creatively and critically with the forms handed down to us by architectural history, we create new architecture. | ||||
Prerequisites / Notice | Working in groups only. Arising additional costs CHF 150.-- (approx. seminar week not included. | ||||
052-0543-18L | Architectural Design III: Archaeology of Tourism (Emerson) Teaching languages are English and German. Please register (www.mystudies.ethz.ch) only after the internal enrolment for the design classes (see http://www.einschreibung.arch.ethz.ch/design.php). Students who do not wish to change the design class must not enrol. Project grading at semester end is based on the list of enrolments on 6th November 2018, 24:00 h (valuation date) only. Ultimate deadline to unsubscribe or enroll for the studio is 6th November 2018, 24:00 h. | 14 credits | 4V + 14U | T. Emerson, C. Kerez, D. Mettler, A. Spiro, R. Boltshauser, A. Brandlhuber, A. Brodskiy, G. A. Caminada, A. Caruso, F. Charbonnet, E. Christ, J. De Vylder, A. Fonteyne, C. Gantenbein, A. Gigon, M. Kaijima, E. Mosayebi, M. Peter, C. Puga Larraín, D. Studer, R. A. Zuber | |
Abstract | We will continue building and planting in our experimental garden at ETH which provide a real engagement in the interactions of architecture with landscape over time – a full scale, real-time case study in making and the layering of history at the heart of the studio. | ||||
Learning objective | Analysis Undertake several types of research simultaneously including: Qualitative site/building analysis (photographic, drawing) Systematic analysis (inventory of uses, material history, social history, etc…) Technical analysis (geology, climate, ecology) Interpret and synthesise information above into a concise and ongoing knowledge base for the design project. Assimilate small, fragmentary observations into broad understanding of place, building, etc… Architectural design Design a small sized building incorporating external spaces and other supporting amenities. Use tight programmatic constraints as a creative stimulus for the spatial organisation of the building. Develop a tectonic strategy as central theme in design project. Use building design to demonstrate understanding of wider landscape. Use building design to propose new ways of inhabiting or experiencing wider landscape. Demonstrate ability to manipulate formal architectural language as an end in itself. Technical Develop method of analysis of a central material or construction thesis in term of environmental performance. Demonstrate understanding of principal structural, environmental and constructional performance. Representation Develop a deep understanding of the status and purpose of architectural representation: drawing, sketch, model, text, image... Develop critical ‘eye’ in photographic recording of place. Develop critical understanding of orthographic drawing: artefact versus data (including scale, line weight, surface, construction, …) Develop ability to make fast sketch models and complex presentation models with precise conceptual purpose. General skills Demonstrate ability to work, learn and communicate as a whole studio, in small groups and individually. Demonstrate high level of technical and critical standard in 2D CAD drafting. Develop ability to assimilate a broad range of working practices. | ||||
Content | Pula and the Brijuni islands are one of the few remaining unspoiled Mediterranean landscapes. Their survival is largely due to the particularly complexity of Balkan history in the twentieth history. Istria was annexed from the Austro-Hungarian Empire into Italy in the first few decades of the century as World War I violently rearranged the old world order. After the second World War, Yugoslavia, under a form progressive non-aligned socialism, found prosperity and stability outside the binary polarities of the Cold War. But tragically the century closed with a terrible civil war from which Croatia and its neighbours have emerged in the fold of widening European Union. With peace and a new alignment with the economically liberal west, the Istrian landscape is now a new resource in the Mediterranean tourist market. Tourism is not new in Istria, but it is growing at an unprecedented rate. As shipyards, naval bases and even agriculture decline, the scenic townscape, beaches, warm seas and wilderness are the new commodity. Development associated with increasing numbers of visitors is putting the very thing which brings holiday makers to Croatia in peril. Much of the Mediterranean has been profoundly damaged over the past forty years by barriers of development in search of the view. The view is the ultimate rhapsodic consummation of the environment by the market. Now we can own to the horizon: the view is consumption without responsibility. The ancient architecture of Istria on the other hand, uses natural resources for social, civic or even spiritual progress. Lime stone cut from the hills of Istria were carefully carved by the Romans to form amongst the finest colosseum, temples and villas east of Venice. Nearly two thousand years later, the Austro-Hungarians built massive circular stone walls to fortify the Istrian coast and islands against the Venetians but in the end, destruction did not come from the sea. It was the Allied bombing during World War II that destroyed part of the city from the air, inadvertently sketching out voids in the city that would become Pula’s civic spaces. The exquisite Roman Temple of Augustus (first century AD), reconstructed in the late 1940’s using anastilosis, is now the centre-piece of the Forum where tourists enjoy café society under the shade of generous parasols. The Forum, the Colosseum, the Amphitheatre, the port and the market are a few of the neighbourhoods at the foot of the fortified hill that make Pula a kind of urban archipelago analogous to the real chain of islands lying offshore. The rocky coast and archipelago provide strategic visual protection to a fertile inland territory gridded by Roman administration two thousand years ago. It is still just about visible today. Looking out from the hilltop fort at the centre of Pula, an archipelago of islands bears witness to the strategic military importance of Pula since Roman times. Lying in the turquoise sea, the natural beauty of the Brijuni islands promise more innocent pursuits of pleasure and leisure for thousands of tourists every year. However, hidden under scrubby woodlands and deep in the rocky outcrops of the islands, great forts crumble. Some are accessible intensifying the landscape with the pleasure of ruins. Most however lie in splendid isolation on deserted islands still owned by the Croatian Navy long after the Mediterranean ceased to be a European battle field. The forts present paradoxical architectural objects; on the one hand their massive circular walls constructed of intricate cut stone is an expression of pure abstract form, yet, on the other, they morph seamlessly into the wooded hilltops in which they become invisible. They are monumental and modest, balancing constructed physical mass above excavated tunnels, stairs and chambers cut deep into the mountain’s mineral geology. As they extend into the landscape the forts disappear into landscape. But it is no accident that the landscape of Pula and neighbouri | ||||
Prerequisites / Notice | There will be a short obligatory studio visit to Pula on the 6th till 9th October; cost 200 CHF (hotel and transport included). | ||||
052-0545-18L | Architectural Design: Convertibles – Reinterpretation of Automobile Architecture (A. Spiro)“ Please register (www.mystudies.ethz.ch) only after the internal enrolment for the design classes (see http://www.einschreibung.arch.ethz.ch/design.php). Students who do not wish to change the design class don't have to parcitipate in the internal enrolment. Project grading at semester end is based on the list of enrolments on 6th November 2018, 24:00 h (valuation date) only. Ultimate deadline to unsubscribe or enroll for the studio is 6th November 2018, 24:00 h. | 14 credits | 4V + 14U | C. Kerez, D. Mettler, A. Spiro, R. Boltshauser, A. Brandlhuber, A. Brodskiy, G. A. Caminada, A. Caruso, F. Charbonnet, E. Christ, J. De Vylder, T. Emerson, A. Fonteyne, C. Gantenbein, A. Gigon, M. Kaijima, E. Mosayebi, M. Peter, C. Puga Larraín, D. Studer, R. A. Zuber | |
Abstract | We deal extensively with a city district in the city of Zurich. On the basis of intensive analysis work, you will develop a specific, self-defined use for the further development of an existing building in individual work and explore the effects of your project on the urban context. | ||||
Learning objective | Analysis of a city district through exact recording and intuitive perception. Presentation of collected information in plan and model. Analysis of an existing building and its surroundings, recognition of the potential of an existing structure and derivation of logical interventions. Formulation and development of a viable usage idea in relation to the urban context: what is missing, what is too much? Formulation of a comprehensive room program. Anchoring the project in urban space through three-dimensional work in plan, cut perspective and model. Examination of the immediate context, investigation and concise presentation of the threshold spaces and transitions from the building to the street space. Dealing with and targeted use of various design tools, presentation techniques and model making. Appropriation of a structured working method in CAD with clearly readable graphic. | ||||
Content | Always constructing The first writings in history were written as palimpsest on parchment. Palin: "again" and psaein: "scraping" - the texts were repeatedly erased and overwritten, because writing material was precious. Something similar is happening in architecture: the stock is getting bigger, the resource land is getting scarcer. The reinterpretation of existing structures will in the future describe one of the main tasks of the architect. We accept that. Just surprising innovations are often created on the "foundations" of other buildings or changes in usage of known designs. The Zurich Sunset Boulevard The Badenerstrasse is one of the oldest routes and the longest street in Zurich, it leads from Stauffacher to Altstetten out to the city limits and under name changes finally to Baden. The Zurich version of Sunset Boulevard is also Zurich's 'automobile row'. Here was the first car factory built, here were the branches of all major car brands, and to the next gas station, which is never more than a few minutes drive. Even today, many automotive suppliers and garages are located and shape the streetscape, together with cooperative settlements, football, small businesses and large construction sites. Nevertheless, a displacement process is noticeable, large car companies have migrated to the periphery and have left considerable gaps and fallow. Thinking on a large scale also testifies to some residential buildings. The first skyscrapers in Zurich were built in the Letzigrund and the punched goods at the beginning of our road section were a pioneer in Zurich housing construction. What is missing? What is too much? The area around Badenerstrasse is expected to be under great investment pressure in the near future. The overbuilding on the Schlotterbeck area is only a first step, more will follow him. Here we intervene and ask ourselves the question: What is missing? What is too much? At four locations along the Badenerstrasse we put existing buildings at the disposition. They explore the place, analyze the buildings and discuss their findings and ideas. From this, we jointly develop a suitable and future-proof utilization concept for each location. The questions are: Which uses can positively influence the future of the neighborhood? How can individual buildings provide impulses? How must the ground floor be designed to enrich the public space? Particular attention is paid to the thresholds and gaps at the transition between public and private. Reference buildings tailored to the idea of use accompany you through the semester. Rethink spaces The architect is seldom allowed himself to do the task himself, but rather he should plan a beautiful case for the given space program. This is exactly where we start. You develop the usage concept as well as the room program itself. Only architects who ask questions and are able to intervene in planning issues will protect our profession in the future from being more than just the last link in a long chain and settling for designing beautiful objects. But a good project is more than just the solution to a given task, it can give impetus and initiate change. Line and model The tool influences the design process. During the course, you will be familiarized with a wide variety of design tools and will be able to operate with different drawing techniques and means of representation. A beautiful plan is more than just a means of understanding, everything is laid out in it, it is the architect's signature. We will deal intensively with drawing, modeling and photography. | ||||
Lecture notes | Documents for the design course will be issued by the chair. | ||||
Literature | Text excerpts that accompany the course are part of the course documents. | ||||
Prerequisites / Notice | Head: Prof. Annette Spiro, Senior Assistant: Florian Schrott Assistants: Rosário Gonçalves, Daan Koch, Daniel Penzis, Sofia Pimentel, Norbert Zambelli Introduction: Tuesday, 18.09.2018 at 10 am, seminar zone HIL F61 - individual work | ||||
063-0763-18L | New Focal Points of Construction (Thesis Elective) | 6 credits | 11A | D. Mettler, D. Studer | |
Abstract | This self-dependent elective thesis refers to the course "New focal points of construction" demands a rethinking of the learning matter. Hence, a consequent argumentation with regard to the base, the wall, the chamber, the roof etc. follow. | ||||
Learning objective | Target of this self-dependent thesis is to rethink the constructive points base, wall, chamber, roof etc. on the basis of the newly acquired skills. A structurally engineered, well-founded hypothesis is formulated, thus serving as a initial position for the conception of future constructions. | ||||
Content | In the elective thesis "New focal points of constructions" constructive points as base, wall, chamber, roof etc. are rethought reflecting the latest learning matters. A structurally engineered, well-founded hypothesis is formulated, thus serving as a initial position for the conception of future constructions. |