052-1143-24L  Architectural Design V-IX: Ämtli für Städtebau (GD C.Zille/ZAS*)

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Abstract	In the fall semester, we invite you to become accomplices of ZAS* and turn the Ämtli into a satellite of ZAS* Studio Hönggerberg. In order to deal with the ambiguity of growth, we will explore specific places within and beyond the current city boundaries.
Learning objective	- Attentive observation - Changing roles and formats/media to discuss different points of view - Actively participating in collective discussions, becoming capable of acting as a group - Comprehending and understanding complex decision-making processes that lead to urban design - Develop and sharpen arguments on the basis of joint text work - Engage with the networks of formal and informal actors in urban design - Getting to know subject-specific and civil means of personal initiative in spatial policy, as well as various practices of “counter-proposals” - Developing an attitude through critical reflection, arguing one's own position - Staying on track - Designing strategies, processes and spatial situations, and their influence on the public - Presenting and processing the connections between individual work and a common concern
Content	Today, the Amt für Städtebau creates the conditions for the city of Zurich to be “the place where we feel at home”. In view of the additional 450,000 people who will move to the canton of Zurich by 2050, ZAS* will open the Ämtli für Städtebau on September 17, 2024. What is Zurich if the growth forecast roughly corresponds to the population of the current city? The Ämtli has set itself the task of thinking the city beyond its borders. It is the anti-Amt and the small Amt that thinks bigger, at once bootleg and thesis, persiflage and confidant of the Amt. The smart little sibling that tells you where to go without being asked. The Ämtli is watched by the Amt and is at the same time its observer. But Ämtli are also small tasks that people within a group take on for the community. As citizens, we look for clues to interpret our own mandates: How do business taxes, the City Card, and building codes influence urban design? Does the current "Aufstockungsinitiative" only create profit for a few, or does it actually create living space for all? To what extent does inner-city reforestation allow the expansion of city boundaries? What will happen if the Street Parade moves to Thurgauerstrasse? What do the Kalkbreite cooperative and the Zitrone association want in Dübendorf? Are there any signs of an end to "Ersatzneubauten"? Could a "Dritte Eingemeindung" be formulated as an ad hoc hypothesis by the Ämtli? Traces lead to cases that lead to action: influencing a member of parliament through lobbying, introducing an additional category in the zoning plan, announcing a public competition, adapting the SIA standard, founding a new sufficiency label, launching a popular initiative. In the fall semester, we invite you to become accomplices of ZAS* and turn the Ämtli into a satellite of ZAS* Studio Hönggerberg. In order to deal with the ambiguity of growth, we will explore specific places within and beyond the current city boundaries. With an awareness of our own ability to act as a group in the city, we will get to know actors in the environment, appropriate or repurpose their tools, and finally formulate an attitude. Understanding the history, functioning and power structures of these places will enable us to become capable of acting in real time and to develop alternative counter-designs. The aim of the semester is a joint press report containing the insights gained as well as drafts and demands for the future of Zurich. “Information is co-determination”, formulated the old ZAS in 1970 and wanted a ‘permanent exhibition pavilion to inform citizens about the concepts, not about detailed questions’. For a period of two years, the Ämtli für Städtebau on Werdmühleplatz, between the Amt für Städtebau, Hochbauamt and Grün Stadt Zürich, is intended to project an open Zurich from the city center. Aware of its prominent location, the Ämtli can occasionally throw its centrality to the wind, or use it as a bribe. From the Ämtli, we cross borders - change roles, write columns, challenge experts, go for walks. The formats become a means to an end in order to test methods of self-empowerment and initiate change that will resonate beyond the semester.
Lecture notes	script
Literature	literature
Prerequisites / Notice	Individual and group work, including 5 or more weeks of group work Introduction: 17.09.2024, 9 Uhr, Werdmühleplatz 6, 8001 Zürich Intermediate crits: 15.10.2024, 12.11.2024 Final crits: Extra costs: approx. CHF 100.--. per student (estimated costs, without possible seminar week costs)
Competencies	Method-specific Competencies Decision-making fostered

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Performance assessment as a semester course
ECTS credits	14 credits
Examiners	C. Zille
Type	graded semester performance
Language of examination	German
Repetition	Repetition only possible after re-enrolling for the course unit.
Additional information on mode of examination	Letzter Abmeldetermin für das Entwurfssemester ist der 30.10.2024, 24:00 Uhr. Das Löschen einer Belegung nach diesem Datum ist nicht zulässig.

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Programme	Section	Type
Architecture Bachelor	Architectural Design (from 5. Semester on)	W