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Electives and Focus Works
Electives
Design and Architecture
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
052-0512-00LPlanning Strategies for Complex Buildings Using the Example of Health Facilities (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W2 credits2VT. Guthknecht
AbstractHealth facility buildings are subject to extraordinary and dynamic changes. The ageing population (to name only one example of change with resulting medical effects) confronts the entire health care building infrastructure with substantial medical and economic challenges.
ObjectiveThe elective subject offers an insight to health facility planning and traverses the themes and phases of health facility planning. Special attention is given to the functionally-differentiated planning and to the planning methodology "Integral Process Design".
ContentArchitecture for health facilities supports the provision of health care for people in need for care with flexible and adaptable building concepts. The demographic changes and the changing disease patterns in the population represent particular challenges for health facility planning. Innovative organizational and building structures have to be developed to cope with these continuously changing tasks. In order to meet these requirements, the architectural functional planning of health facilities should be differentiated further. The individual elements of planning have to be adjusted in a well-balanced manner.
As a core point of planning, the functionally-differentiated planning of health facilities provides the context for the growing need of highly qualified medical services combined with reduced operational costs.
Health facility architecture can however only support the medical workflow in the best possible way. This is because a well-designed health facility can never guarantee a good medical service but a badly designed facility can hinder if not impede entirely a good medical performance.
During the design formalization of the health facility concept various aspects such as conceptual, organizational, medical, social, human, economic and technical requirements have to be reconciled. To achieve these goals, priorities must be set and landmark decisions must be taken.
With the Integral Process Design approach a functional-differentiated design concept is applied which forms the base for the intertwined and iteratively embraced overall concept of complex buildings. By using the Integral Process Design methodology the workflows, activities, functions and departments of a health facility are connected with special consideration an optimization of their interfaces. The goal is to achieve optimal work conditions from functional-medical, human, design and economic viewpoints.

The topics of the elective subject are supplemented by a series of guest lectures following specific themes of the modules. The various specialists from different sectors of health facility planning shall directly report from their experience in the field.
Lecture notesPresentation will be made available by the lecturer.
052-0514-00LSpatial Concepts in Film and Architecture (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W1 credit1VM. Bächtiger Zwicky, A. Gigon
AbstractThe course deals with spatial phenomena at the interface of film and architecture. The alternating influence of these two media will be analiyzed, the dispositions of perception and effect will be compared and thus will sharpen the view for a architectural way of looking at space.
ObjectiveThe examination of filmic space situations and performance discloses new perceptions of architecture which will be studied on behalf of film analyses and experimental topics. During the course space-effective creative means such as editing or framing will be introduced and discussed under perceptive aspects. Mediality within spatial perception can thus be integrated into a development of cultural history and leads towards a conception which goes  beyond the limits of architecture and stimulates new processes of design.
ContentLike architecture, film can be understood both as an autonomous artistic discipline and as a politically and socially determined form of expression of a particular time and culture. "Few films are pure 'works of art', but all are to a greater or lesser extent historic documents", Siegfried Kracauer remarked already in 1947 in his famous study 'From Caligari to Hitler'. "As historic documents, however, they reflect the external and internal state of a society which, for its part, expects pretences from film." Based on the tension between the poles of artwork and document or reflection and pretence, we will look at, analyse and discuss ten selected award-winning films of contemporary international cinema - from Maïwenn's 'Polisse' (2011) to Bong Joon-ho's 'Parasite' (2019) and Chloé Zhao's 'Nomadland' (2020). The focus lies on the architectural and cinematic space, whose staging, function and symbolism will be critically examined in the context of current social issues. The seminar will start with an introduction to the construction tools of cinematic space and the study of selected texts on spatial and film theory. The films are presented and analysed by the students.
052-0522-00L3D Scanning und Freeform Modeling (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
Enrolment only possible after consultation with the lecturer.
This course (ends with «00L») can only be passed once! Please check this before signing up.
W2 credits2UA. Grüninger, K. Sander
AbstractStreetfood
Digital Sculpture. Experimental use of a system for digitalizing and modeling 3D objects. Output VR
Objective--
ContentThe department of Architecture and Fine Arts has a 3D-Bodyscanner available for the digitalization of persons and objects, and is complimented by a special software for modeling the 3D data.
After a period of training and practice, participants are asked to develop ideas and concepts for their own projects. These concepts should be used to lead and expand the system and the possibilities of its application. The process of readjustment and its realization will be a continual part of developing the individual projects.
Prerequisites / NoticeThe number of participants is limited. Proficiency in Windows systems is a precondition for participation. To enroll in the course, please consult the lecturer Adi Grüninger: Link
052-0536-00LModel and Design (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 16.
This course (ends with «00L») can only be passed once! Please check this before signing up.
W3 credits4UA. Tellini, K. Derleth
Abstract"Seeing precedes talking". Together we will use various sources to investigate the "correct" way of seeing. The course is offered as an online seminar and supplemented by presentations and practical exercises.
ObjectiveThrough a phenomenological examination of various sources (art, film, design, architecture) we will investigate the "correct" way of seeing. Above insights are complemented by practical exercises allowing to reflect on individual perception patterns.
Content"Seeing precedes talking". What contributes to the act of seeing? It starts with the physical process of light hitting our retina through our eyes. Using these images we construct a part of our perceived reality. In the history of art, design and architecture, there are protagonists who are dedicated to the question of seeing and thus to the construction of reality. During the course we will use various sources to investigate the "correct" way of seeing. We will discuss the different points of view and the corresponding levels of meaning. Small practical design exercises will help us to experience the connections between recognising and creating.
Prerequisites / NoticeOnline seminar.
Additional work of estimated 4 hours during the week is to calculate.
Due to the wide range of source material, good German and English language skills are required.
052-0538-00LFree Drawing (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 32.

This course (ends with «00L») can only be passed once! Please check this before signing up.
W2 credits2VM. Léonard-Contant, K. Sander
AbstractThe ability to represent visions and contents is learned through technical, as well as freehand drawing using a variety of techniques.
ObjectiveThe representation of actual circumstances, thoughts, and ideas in consideration of technical and graphic abilities. Cultivation of individual forms of expression in the areas of sketching, drawing, interpretation and caricature, work strategies and impact.
ContentDrawing is a direct way in which to visualize ideas and conceptions. In this course, ideas and skills can be explored and developed into independent means of expression, within the realm of drawing.
Prerequisites / NoticeParticipation limited to a maximum of 30 partakers.
Enrolment is a commitment to the course!
052-0842-00LMaterial-Lab (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
Does not take place this semester.
This course (ends with «00L») can only be passed once! Please check this before signing up.
W3 credits3GA. Spiro
AbstractIn the elective "Material-Lab" the students are given the possibility to get to know materials in a theoretical and practical way. Also they investigate the potential of the contemporary architecture by means of a material specific survey.
The focus is laid on constructive questions and on the investigation of the influence on architectonic form and expression.
ObjectiveWork on materials and make architecture out of it. This is the basic of any construction. It does not go without the knowledge of historic correlations and the know-how on how to apply on the one hand, but also an exploratory spirit on the other hand.
The elective "Material-Lab aims to become an expert of exemplary materials and handling and deepen knowledge for the correlation of material, construction, forma and architectonic expression.

In the Material-Lab new, common and partly forgotten materials and their workmanship is investigated and where and ow the potential for new possibilities in architecture could be. We discuss why certain materials have disappeared from nowadays building practice and how far the could again be usable by means of new tools and methods. we investigate the possibility of such "old" materials for new architectonic projects.

Particular focus is laid on the investigation of use and constructive implementation with sustainable targets, namely long-lasting architecture keeping its values in any respect.
ContentVarious techiques are investigated on their current and architectonic potential and discussed in colloquiums. Basics are given in lectures and prepared research results.

The students work in small groups during the semester on a project which is also being discussed with experts. We are looking for conepts for contemporary and material specific constructions and a appropriate architectonic expression.

Subsequent to this course the studies may be deepened in a elective thesis and transferred in a project 1:1.

More infos under Link
052-0524-00L360° - Reality to Virtuality (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W2 credits2GK. Sander
AbstractStreetfood Zürich
Basics of 3D-scanning of rooms and bodies, individual scan projects, 3D-visualizations and animations. Definition and realization of a project, working alone and in groups.
ObjectiveCovid Wahlfach Anpassung

Meet & Eat Zürich
Nach den beiden letzten strikten Online-Semestern des vergangenen Jahres werden wir für das kommende Semester eine neue Kursform einführen: Persönlich wie auch virtuell treffen wir uns in Zürich und gehen den Umständen wie auch derzeitigen Möglichkeiten des Streetfoods nach. Dabei ist unser Ziel die verschiedenen Buden, Trucks und Container aufzusuchen, zu scannen und unser Essen gleich mit zu digitalisieren.

Imbiss Buden im Umkreis der ETH Hönggerberg sind unsere Anlaufstellen (Altstätten/Oerlikon/Seebach/Affoltern/Höngg/Schwamendingen usw.) Gerne könnt ihr während des ersten Kurstermins vorschläge einbringen und eure Lieblingsbude emphehlen.

Wichtig!!!
Wir werden den Kurs auf beide 3D Wahlfächer vom Lehrstuhl Sander ausdehnen:
360 Grad (052-0524-00L: Montag 12 Uhr bis 14 Uhr) & 3D Scan und Modeling (052-0522-00L: Montag 14 Uhr bis 16 Uhr)
StudentInnen welche an beiden Kursen eingeschrieben sind werden bei der Auswahl bevorzugt.

Das Programm wird folgendermaßen aussehen:
12:15 Uhr Treffen an der definierten Imbissbude / Streetfood in Zürich (bei bestehenden Einschränkungen ggf. in Kleingruppen)
- Roadmap & Arbeiten besprechen
- Bestellen & Essen
- 3D Scan & Datensammlung

Bis 13:45 Uhr
- Rückreise, ETH oder Home Office

Ab 14:00 bis 16:00 Uhr
- 3D Datenbearbeitung und Zoom Treffen

Der persönliche Kontakt soll in diesem Semester unter den geltenden Richtlinien wieder ermöglicht werden.

So können wir einen persönlichen Kontakt mit euch aufbauen indem wir Essen und Wahlfach vermischen. Nachträglich im digitalen OFF weiter an der Umsetzung arbeiten.

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Understanding 3D-technologies, handling positive and negative spaces, handling hardware and software, processing 3D point clouds (registering scans, filtering, merging of data sets, precision, visualizations, animation), interpretation of the generated data.
ContentCovid Wahlfach Anpassung

Meet & Eat Zürich
Nach den beiden letzten strikten Online-Semestern des vergangenen Jahres werden wir für das kommende Semester eine neue Kursform einführen: Persönlich wie auch virtuell treffen wir uns in Zürich und gehen den Umständen wie auch derzeitigen Möglichkeiten des Streetfoods nach. Dabei ist unser Ziel die verschiedenen Buden, Trucks und Container aufzusuchen, zu scannen und unser Essen gleich mit zu digitalisieren.

Imbiss Buden im Umkreis der ETH Hönggerberg sind unsere Anlaufstellen (Altstätten/Oerlikon/Seebach/Affoltern/Höngg/Schwamendingen usw.) Gerne könnt ihr während des ersten Kurstermins vorschläge einbringen und eure Lieblingsbude emphehlen.

Wichtig!!!
Wir werden den Kurs auf beide 3D Wahlfächer vom Lehrstuhl Sander ausdehnen:
360 Grad (052-0524-00L: Montag 12 Uhr bis 14 Uhr) & 3D Scan und Modeling (052-0522-00L: Montag 14 Uhr bis 16 Uhr)
StudentInnen welche an beiden Kursen eingeschrieben sind werden bei der Auswahl bevorzugt.

Das Programm wird folgendermaßen aussehen:
12:15 Uhr Treffen an der definierten Imbissbude / Streetfood in Zürich (bei bestehenden Einschränkungen ggf. in Kleingruppen)
- Roadmap & Arbeiten besprechen
- Bestellen & Essen
- 3D Scan & Datensammlung

Bis 13:45 Uhr
- Rückreise, ETH oder Home Office

Ab 14:00 bis 16:00 Uhr
- 3D Datenbearbeitung und Zoom Treffen

Der persönliche Kontakt soll in diesem Semester unter den geltenden Richtlinien wieder ermöglicht werden.

So können wir einen persönlichen Kontakt mit euch aufbauen indem wir Essen und Wahlfach vermischen. Nachträglich im digitalen OFF weiter an der Umsetzung arbeiten.

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1. Introduction to 3D laser scanning (getting to know technologies, methods and context; carry out practical tests)
2. Project development within the group (idea, concept, target, intention, selection of methods & strategies)
3. Project implementation within the group (possible results, videos, pictures, prints, publications, web, blog, forum etc.)
4. Project presentation (exhibition incl. critiques, discussions)
Prerequisites / NoticeThe number of participants is limited. Proficiency in Windows systems is a precondition for participation. To enroll in the course, please consult the lecturer Adam Kiryk: Link
052-0550-00LHybrid Modeling: 3D-Printing for the Architectural Design (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
Enrolment on agreement with the lecturer only (Link).

This course (ends with «00L») can only be passed once! Please check this before signing up.
W2 credits2SJ. Benhamu Esayag
AbstractDuring 12 weeks, students will get to know both the hardware and the software to successfully use 3D printing technology as an aid to the architectural design process.

3D Printers will be made available to the Students.

hytac.arch.ethz.ch
ObjectiveThe students have to produce blocks of consecutive output. This ensures that all safety regulations are understood and the hybrid model technology is mastered. The focus is on the students learning how to best illustrate their architectural concept with the new model construction technique.
ContentBy means of numerous physically produced concepts of the students the range of possible developments is to be pointed out. The course is divided into 3 blocks: A (up to the seminar week): learning the basic technique. B (until 4 Weeks prior to End of semester): Develop and present 5 possible architectural concepts. C (until the end of the semester): deepening a concept by creating different variants.
Prerequisites / NoticeKnowledge of 3D printing technology is not required.
052-0552-00LThe Architecture of Maintenance (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
This course (ends with «00L») can only be passed once! Please check this before signing up.
W2 credits2GA. Perkins, N. Zimonjic
AbstractIn this elective course we will interrogate the possibilities of repair as a method for a new kind of architectural design model, as a disciplinary response in the era of climatic change. The course should pose range of questions and challenges to conventional building economies, standards of construction industry ranging in scale from urban to material choices.
Objective- Investigate design research methods through analyses of architectural examples that focus on repair.
- Produce an in-depth survey of the maintenance of one building in the form of a Maintenance Manual.
- Question and suggest improvements to repair methods applied in the
contemporary building culture.
- Compare possibilities of repair-as-design method in multiple disciplines
(art, landscape, medicine, industry, software, etc) with the help of
invited specialist guests.
ContentCan we practice architecture, with the care of a gardener?
In this weekly elective course, the goal will be to look at repair as a possible method for a new kind of design. As a disciplinary response in an era of climatic change, it is envisioned that this study should pose a range of questions to challenge conventional building economies and the durability of the constructed environment. We will interrogate and look for ways of improving and repairing standards of construction industry ranging in scale from the urban to material choices. The methods developed and gathered should become an outline of experimental possibilities for designers and practitioners who face the growing challenge of a lack of newly built form, and ever growing need to address the existing built substance, with an outlook to a conflict between construction industry standards orientated toward new buildings and acknowledged methods of prolongation and altering architecture. Instead of aspiring to build new, can we as a generation focus mainly on what is already there.
Using the knowledge you gather, you will work in pairs to create one annotated architectural drawing which attempts to reveal the information which lacks. The drawing will be passed or sent to your partner each week for additions, removals, edits and comments, and we will review these drawings during the two-hour slot each week.
LiteraturePeter Maxwell. ‘A Dangerous Breed’. Originally published in FORM 246, 2013
Herman E. Daly. ‘Wealth, Illth and Net Growth’. In: From Uneconomic Growth to a Steady- State Economy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2014)
Michael Thompson, Rubbish Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1979) Ch.3 ‘Rat
infested slum or glorious heritage?’ p.34-56
Arjun Appdurai. The Social Life of Things (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986)
p.3-63 ‘Introduction: commodities and the politics of value’
Peter Maxwell, ‘Understanding Repair’ In: Useless (London: Royal College of Art, Critical
Writing in Art & Design, 2012)
Alvaro Siza, Living in a House, March 1994, Originally published in: Kenneth Frampton,
Álvaro Siza: Complete Works (London: Phaidon, 2000. p252)
Tim Ingold, ‘Skill’. In: The Perception of the Environment Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling
and Skill, London: Routledge, 2000
Tim Ingold, ‘Building, Dwelling, Living’. In: The Perception of the Environment Essays on
Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, London: Routledge, 2000
Beatriz Colomina, “The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism” Sexuality and Space (New York:
Princeton Architectural Press, 1992)
Charlotte Perkins Gillman, The Home, its Work and Influence (New York: Charlton
Company. 1910) Ch2. ‘The Evolution of the Home’ p.14-35
Charlotte Perkins Gillman, The Home, its Work and Influence (New York: Charlton
Company. 1910) Ch2. ‘The Home as Workshop. I. The Housewife’ p.82-103
Vishmidt, Marina. ‘Management and Maintenance’. In Look at Hazards, Look at Losses,
edited by Anthony Iles, Danny
Mirales Ladermann Ukeles. ‘Manifesto for Maintenance Art’
Mary Douglas. Purity and Danger (London and New York: Routledge Classics.2002) p. 1-35
Elinor Ostrom. Governing the Commons (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1990) Ch.
3 ‘Analyzing long-enduring, self-organizing, and self-governing CPRs’ p.58-102
William Cronon. ‘The Wealth of Nature, Lumber’ In Nature’s Metropolis
Gilles Clement. The Planetary Garden (Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press: 2015)
Donald Worster. ‘History as Natural History’, In: The Wealth of Nature (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1993)
Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees. Translated by Jane Billinghurst. (London:
William Collins. 2016) p.1-18, p.241-250
051-1202-21LIntegrated Discipline Construction (D.Mettler/D.Studer) Information Restricted registration - show details
Presence on the first day (initial course event) to the integrated discipline construction is compulsory for participating in this course.
W3 credits2UD. Mettler, D. Studer
AbstractIn 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.
ObjectiveThe 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.
ContentThis 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 / NoticeFor your attention:
Your presence at the introduction lesson taking place at the beginning of the semester (date will be communicated in due time) is compulsory for all further work within the Integrated Discipline Construction.

The Integrated Discipline Construction at BUK consists of the obligatory introductory event, the central elements Exercise 1 + 2, Presentation and Interim Criticism, as well as the final submission.
052-0518-21LTheory and Practice: Special Turn and Immaterial Space Joseph Beuys versus René Descartes Information W2 credits2GC. Posthofen, A. Brandlhuber
AbstractBoth the rationalism of "radical doubt" in Rene´ Descartes and the "understanding" in Beuys' sense of "standing somewhere else" have philosophical-aesthetic roots and spatial-theoretical and spatial-practical consequences. In dealing with this, the students work on their own position on spatial theory, whereby material and immaterial spatial aspects play a role.
ObjectiveThe students gain insight into the spectrum of epistemological and perceptual theories, learn to read them and analyze and critique their respective requirements. From this work an object relationship model is developing in progress, which serves self-examination in the design process as well as the evaluation of architectural situations in general and in particular. The writing of "scientific diaries" in which the contents of the colloquium are combined with the everyday experience of the students in free form, trains the concentrated result-oriented thinking in general, as well as in architectural situations. The special form of the writing of the "cientific diary" leads abstract theory together with the experience of the students and make the knowledge cratively available in their own way.
ContentSpecial turn and immaterial space. Joseph Beuys “how I explain art to the dead rabbit” versus Rene ‘Descartes“ I think therefore I am ”. Reflections and exercises on the aesthetics of the room.

Both the rationalism of "radical doubt" in Rene 'Descartes, as
also about "understanding" in the Beuysian sense of "standing somewhere else" have philosophical-aesthetic roots and spatial theory and practical consequences. In dispute a.o. with these opposing positions, the seminar participants worked on one own spatial theory position. Both material and intangible spatial aspects play a role.
Lecture notesHand out at the first meeting.
LiteratureRene’Descartes, Meditations, Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg 2009; Volker Harland, What is Art? Workshop talk with Beuys, Urachhaus Verlag,
Stuttgart 2001; Harlan, Rappmann, Schata, Soziale Plastik - Material zu Joseph Beuys, Achberger Verlag, Achberg 1984.
052-0534-21LNew Focal Points of Construction: Steel Construction Information Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 35.
W2 credits2GI. von Meiss-Leuthold, D. Mettler, D. Studer
AbstractThe elective subject "New focal points of construction" investigates on the basis of contemporary architecture the complexe interaction of construction elements. The comparative analysis of built constructions serves as a basis for further development of hypothetical future constructions. These semester will fokus on building with steel.
ObjectiveTarget of the course is the understanding of the impacts of material, technology and construction to the architectural education of constructive points.The focus lies on the present state of technology and the current challenge of building.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 constructive education.
ContentThe current building scene will be analysed through lectures and the visit of buildings and manufacturing sites. An exercise with a following descussion will deepen the analyses. More information about the course can be found on Link.
Prerequisites / NoticeNumber of students limited to 35.
052-0540-21LSummer School: Workshop Valparaiso (in Collaboration with EPFL) Information Restricted registration - show details W4 credits7SA. Spiro
AbstractThis summer school it not taking place (COVID19) !
Please do not register / cancel your registration!
ObjectiveObservation, analysis, 1:1 testing, drawing, design and collaborative working are the primary focus of the workshop.

1. Analyze the existing project and its site through observation, measurement and writing and be able to communicate the ideas drawn from this analysis with others.

2. Develop analytical drawing and model making to explore both the research topic and its potential application to the existing project.

3. Collaborate in a team to develop a coherent argument through drawing, model-making and prepare oral presentation of these elements.

4. Apply research prototypes for architectural solutions to the constraints of the project and its site through their transformation into full-scale, material assemblages using a reiterative process of testing and design.

5. Interrogate the specificity of the site and community through drawing and active participation in readings and lectures.

6. Collaborate on a work-site with a diverse group, while taking initiative, sharing knowledge and being respectful of the capacities of others and the safety of the work-site.

During the Lausanne week of the project, learning outcomes are assessed through individual group desk critiques where analytical and design work is discussed and oral-feedback provided. Larger sessions, in the middle and at the end of the week, allow students to present their ideas to their colleagues who are encouraged to provide feedback.
During the time in Chile, assessment happens as on-going discussion on the progress and development of student propositions, 1 on 1 discussion that happens naturally as we work alongside the students, and in more formal, structured sessions where student groups up-date each other on the developments of their work. In evening discussions of material from the “Building Cultures Valparaiso” publication, students are encouraged to participate and to lead the conversation with their questions and views on the text being discussed.
Students will also be asked to keep a journal of there time during the workshop, comprising both written, drawn and photographic observations.
ContentBegun in 2014, the Open City Research Platform was initiated to provide undergraduate and masters level students an introduction to immersive full-scale construction that involves:

- exposure to and participation in the alternative building culture developed over nearly 50 years through pedagogical and design research experiments at the Open City, a community of architects, poets and designers founded by members of the ead-PUCV in 1973.
-A direct relationship to site where drawing and observation are used as tools for the analysis of environment.
-A direct contact with materials, fabrication and assembly that draws on “low-tech”, hands-on construction methods.
- A humanistic understanding of architecture’s relationship to other creative disciplines.
- An opportunity to work and learn collaboratively with architects and engineers and in an interdisciplinary way on a research project.

The Open City Research Platform was founded as a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Lausanne (EPFL), and the Open City/ Corporación Cultural Amereida, a community of designers, architects and poets that has sustained itself on a coastal site near Valparaiso, Chile for nearly fifty years. Since 2014, this collaboration has brought together students from Switzerland and Chile to work on the incremental building of El Pórtico de los Huéspedes (The Threshold of the Guests) for the Open City.

The goal was to create an innovative and interdisciplinary context that would make it possible to research on architecture through the pedagogy of making as a research that:
- Positions the university student at the intersection between teaching and research.
- Questions the boundary between the theoretical and the practical, between the academic and the professional.
- Involves students in a creative process linked to the material, human and temporal realities of building;
- Investigates how tacit knowledge is transmitted through experience.

In the Open City, we found a context to address these questions through the incremental development of a project of an open duration.

The research project sensitized EPFL and ETHZ students to fabrication as a collective act involving the community. Students build with rudimentary yet precise tools, such as the Japanese saw and readily available materials: local bricks, sections of Chilean pine, concrete mixed on site. In their collaborative work, testing different solutions, Swiss and Chilean participants research on different materials and tectonic possibilities and its use for innovative solutions. This encounter between two cultures of techné created conditions for knowledge exchange and broadened understandings of how the built environment, sustainability and development are linked to a local context.

Objectives
The Open City Research Platform will therefore use the summer workshop as a period where student participants carry out full-scale experiments in construction that are guided by the research interests of the organizers and are applied to the constraints and needs of the Open City.
El Pórtico de los Huéspedes is understood as a platform welcoming interdisciplinary research and exploration, whether it be into building technologies as we propose for the next several years, or on other subjects related to the mission of the community and the larger school.
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Cacciari, Massimo, “Mies’s Classics.” RES 16 (Autumn 1988): 9-16.
Cavanagh, Ted. “Balloon Houses: The Original Aspects of Conventional Wood-Frame Construction Re-Examined.”
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Ressources en bibliothèque:
Devabhaktuni, Sony, Guaita, Patricia, and Tapparelli, Cornelia, (eds.), Building Culture Valparaiso: Pedagogy Practice and Poetry at the Valparaiso School of Architecture and Design. Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2015.

Sites web:
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Prerequisites / NoticeThis summer school it not taking place (COVID19) !
Please do not register / cancel your registration!

The workshop is open to all students who have finished there license or the 1st year of Masters. Students from other years may take part in the workshop but will not receive credit.

Dates: Introduction to the course: ( tbc)
Dates for the workshop:Lausanne July 6 – 9 2020; Open City August 3 – 21, 2020.

Students are responsible for financing the cost of lodging, meals and flights. More information on these will be provided during a ETH campus information session. For any immediate questions please contact us. Workshop travel subsidies may be available through the ETH department of architecture.

Applications should be sent via email to Link and should comprise a brief letter that describes why you are interested in the project and expectations for the workshop. All candidates will also be interviewed as part of the selection process.

We are looking for self-motivated students who are interested in an experience that provides human, intellectual and physical challenges.
Applications will be accepted until 6th April 2020 with interviews conducted in April and decisions made shortly afterwards:

10 undergraduate and master students from EPFL ;
10 undergraduate and master students from ETHZ ;
8 master students from ead-PUCV

Faculty teaching participants (being with the students on a continual basis throughout the workshop period):
Patricia Guaita, ENAC, EPFL; Raffael Baur, ENAC, EPFL;
Dr. David Jolly Monge, Professor, School of Architecture and Design of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso ead-PUCV;
EPFL Assistant:Romain Dubuis, architect EPFL

Invited Experts :
Victoria Jolly, architect, Corporación Cultural Amereida.
Patrick Valeri, Doctoral Assistant, ENAC IIC IBETON EPFL

Faculty and Institutional Partners:
Paolo Tombesi, Director Institute of Architecture and the City, EPF Lausanne;
Annette Spiro, Professor , Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich
052-0566-21LFormalistic Analysis of the Architecture of the Neo-Liberal Ideology: Europaallee Information Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 12.

This course is offered until end of HS22.
W2 credits3GE. Christ, C. Portmann
AbstractUsing the example of Zurich's Europaallee, the elective examines the architecture that produces the neoliberal ideology. Based on the method of historical building surveys, the formal-architectural properties are described, analyzed and finally summarized in the sense of a formal catalog of neoliberal architecture.
ObjectiveThe participants critically deal with contemporary urban and building production from a design perspective. By applying the method of the course, they learn the ability to describe and analyze the formal-architectural properties of architecture.
ContentThe Europaallee was created and advertised as fulfilling the highest demands that can currently be made on architecture and planning by the SBB, a publicly owned company, in close cooperation with the authorities of the city of Zurich. Just completed, in the Swiss context it exemplifies the self-image of what 'good planning' and 'good politics' are with regard to the development of urban space.
Instead of comprehending the complex planning process and accepting the built as a consequence, the elective turns the analysis 'head on its feet': What kind of quarter, piece of city has been realized? If objects cannot lie (cf. Bulle, Heinrich: Handbuch der Archäologie, Munich 1913), the ideology of the planning process can also be read from the architecture itself, provided that it is questioned methodically and precisely. Therefore, the elective is based on a formal-architectural analysis of Europaallee. In a first step, based on the scientific method of historical building surveys, the urban spaces, building structures, facades, entrances, etc. are described in detail in order to identify possible architectural principles and typological properties of the overall project in a second step. In a final step, the results from this formal-architectural analysis are summarized in the sense of a formal catalog of neoliberal architecture.
052-0564-21LFifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women's Voting Rights in Switzerland Information W2 credits2SE. Mosayebi
AbstractOn the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Swiss women's right to vote in 2021, an experimental ephemeral structure will be designed and constructed within the framework of a seminar in the spring semester and a subsequent elective work over the summer, which will use the Münsterhof in an intelligent, sensitive and surprising way. The installation will be built in September.
ObjectiveConception and realization of a temporary structure in cooperation with organizers, authorities and specialists.
ContentOn the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Swiss women's suffrage in 2021, there is an opportunity to work with the créatrices.ch association, which wants to make the achievements of women in the environment and lifestyle visible. A spatial installation will occupy the Münsterhof in Zurich for ten days. In terms of content, the installation and its display refer to the period from 1971–2071, 50 years back and 50 years ahead. 50:50 is the goal, 50:50 also symbolically represents the participation of men and women. The architectural framework we are looking for offers space for fun activities and discussions about equality and democracy.
Together with students from the ETH, an experimental ephemeral structure is to be designed and constructed as part of an elective, which plays on the urban space in an intelligent, sensitive and surprising way and invites visitors to be politically committed to the past and above all to the future . The installation takes into account the ideas of the association and, in its materialization and design, takes a position on current issues about climate, consumption and community. One special focus is placed on the human voice - as a central instrument of expression and communication - through which the charter of créatrices2021 is presented in a variety of ways,
modulated and reproduced far into the urban space.
052-0562-00LTerritories of Play - Surveying Architecture Through Gaming (FS) Information
This course (with "00L" at the end) can only be passed once. Please check before signing up!
W2 credits2SF. Charbonnet, P. Heiz
AbstractThis seminar will challenge students to take a complementary look onto the built environment through the lenses of Gaming, focusing on specific episodes in order to draw relations between the notions of Play/Game, Society and Architecture.
ObjectiveThe seminar addresses a way of perceiving reality which has become key, with the gaming industry reaching unforeseen volumes in output and sales, as well as gaming theories sitting at the core of general social and financial strategies and policies. Besides offering students steady footing on the makings of an architectural publication, by confronting students with key texts and voices in the past and present of gaming theory and praxis, the seminar will provide them with a complementary tool with which to approach architecture and urbanism.
ContentFrom Game Theory to Dices, touching Go, Hide-and-seek or Sims, a multitude of games and acts of play will serve as standing points for the perception and re-reading of the functioning of societies and the built environments these give rise to. The seminar will be structured into three distinct moments:
An in-depth introduction to the theoretical frame of the seminar through three lectures; by a game designer, by an architectural historian or architect, and by the seminar's tutor. Key theoretical works and authors - Jesse Schell, Johan Huizinga and Katie Salen & Eric Zimmerman - will thus be presented and analyzed, hinting at possible bridges to a critical analysis of architecture and the built environment through its decomposition into Mechanics, Aesthetics, Narrative and Technology, the four pillars of game design. A moment of individual work when students will be invited to select a game, dissect it according to the theoretical input previously received, and select a key aspect of it. This key aspect will in turn be used as lenses through which students should analyze and question their reality, a milieu of their own choice: from the spaces and urban situations formulating their daily routine in the city, to their hometown or fetish city. From this analysis, a visual -drawings and images- and written essay presenting and defending their hypothesis of reading of their milieu through gaming should emerge. The writing will be conducted mostly during the seminar's attendance time. And a final moment when students are to produce a ludic publication compiling the classes' essays into an accessible survey.
052-0554-21LSummer School: Voluptas - A World at Play Information W2 credits3GP. Heiz
AbstractThe online summer school brings together a limited number of students with different backgrounds (architecture, game design, programming, art, philosophy) in order to build a playable digital world based on the projects produced within the frame of the voluptas design studio since FS18. Students will be offered key lectures and tutoring by some of the leading names in game design.
ObjectiveOne-week online summer school, aiming at building pieces of a digital playable world.

The pedagogic goals of the summer school are twofold: to foster interaction and cooperation between students of seemingly disconnected fields towards a common goadl, and to impart students with the tools to project meaningful, playable spaces in the digital realm.
ContentA selected group of students will evolve towards the common goadl of bringing a playable world to being by drawing from their specific strengths and learning backgrunds. Starting with a first day of theoretical input by the voluptas chair and by group of renowned figures from the game design world, when students will gain the overview of the week's processes and a grasp on the end goal, the week will see students gradually approaching the final game ghrough a series of daily exercises and discussions with the tutors. On the last day, the playable world will be presented to a group of architects, game designers, artists and philosophers, in a format similar to that of a final critique.
052-0570-21LLecture Series Design and Architecture: One Building (Part 1) Information W2 credits1VE. Christ, A. Antonakakis, R. Boltshauser, A. Deuber, A. Holtrop, C. Kerez, E. Prats Güerre, A. Theriot
AbstractThe lecture series of the Institute of Design and Architecture - in the FS21 provides students with an overview of the various positions of the teachers within the IEA (Institute Design in Architecture).
ObjectiveThe lecture series of the Institute of Design and Architecture - in the FS21 provides students with an overview of the various positions of the teachers within the IEA (Institute Design in Architecture).

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051-1242-21LIntegrated Discipline Construction - Spring Semester 2021 Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2ULecturers
AbstractThe integrated focal work has to accompany the design, though the focal work has to be an autonomous work. The formal framework needs to be discussed with the assistants.

Work on a current design project with focus on construction.
ObjectiveA case study with a clear topic and a clear formulation of a question. The findings and the discoveries shall be part of the base of the design.

Obtain competence in the field of construction and constructive design.
Prerequisites / NoticeFor students who attend the architectural design only.
051-1234-21LIntegrated Discipline Architecture and Urban Design (F. Persyn)W3 credits2UF. Persyn
AbstractThe integrated study performance has to accompany the design, though it has to be a clearly recognizable independent performance within the discipline of urban planning.The formal framework needs to be discussed with the assistants.
ObjectiveAn urban design case study with a clear topic and a clear formulation of a question. The findings and the discoveries shall be part of the base of the design.
ContentThe integrated study performance has to accompany the design, though it has to be a clearly recognizable independent performance within the discipline of urban planning.The formal framework needs to be discussed with the assistants.
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