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Architecture of Territory invites you to the common final review of this springs’s territorial studio project GENEVA UNBUILT–GARDENING CITY AND LAND.

Gardening City and Land—Geneva Unbuilt is part of a collaborative project “Greater Geneva and the Land. Property–Ecology–Identity” being developed with University of Luxembourg Master in Architecture program led by professor Florian Hertweck and Raumbureau A+U led by Rolf Jenni. The project unfolds in the framework of the “Greater Geneva Consultation” coordinated and supported by Foundation Braillard. Students in Zurich and Luxembourg have worked in parallel on selected sites and will share their results in a common final review in Zurich.

The final review will treat the following project sites:
1 ARVE UNBUILT
by Androniki Prokopidou & David Tucker

2 COMPESIERES UNBUILT
by Romain Dupertuis, Janosch Eggenberger & Eric Niu

3 CERN UNBUILT
by Sharan Goppenahalli, Khevna Modi & Lisa Therese

4 ARVE BUILT
by Amanda Dalmutt Ortiz

5 COMPESIERE BUILT
by Natali Bezarashvili & Bujar Hasani

6 CERN BUILT
by Aleksander Dominik Zaremba & Koushik Radharkrishnan

7 ST. JULIEN BUILT
by Eldin Babic & Christian Guaman

8 JUSSY BUILT
by Scott Lang, Srija Nadipineni & Sara Werbinska


Followed by drinks and bbq!

Architecture of Territory invites you to the final review of this autumn’s territorial studio project BEOGRAD UNBUILT–PROJECT FOR PUBLIC LANDSCAPE.

The research and design semester focused on the urban body formed by Belgrade’s many green islands and open spaces enclosed within the built fabric. Amidst often conflicted political interests projected in urban space, the idea of public landscape can begin to serve as crucial common ground. In the light of the city’s ravenous development, both formal and informal, we propose to rethink once again the meaning of the UNBUILT, and envision its contemporary form.

The final review will treat the following project sites:

1 “PKB”- Agricultural Kombinat Beograd
by Maëlle Odermatt & Kerstin Spiekermann

2 Ada Čaplja
by Marco Busarello & Raja Stettler

3 Ada Huja
by Perrine Hoo & Li Xinhe

4 Orlovic Breg
by Mirko Schaap & Katrin Röthlin

5 Topćider and Košutnjak
by Franziska Beer & Luca Schüpbach

6 Makiš Springs
by Mirjam Kupferschmid & Androniki Prokopidou

7 Ušće Park
by Rafael Schäfer & Klára Sládečková

8 Zemun Cliffs
by Lisa Adelmann & Djoa Strassburg

Followed by drinks and bbq!

Architecture of Territory invites you to the final review of this spring’s territorial studio project BEOGRAD UNBUILT–PROJECT FOR PUBLIC LANDSCAPE.

The research and design semester focused on the urban body formed by Belgrade’s many green islands and open spaces enclosed within the built fabric. Amidst often conflicted political interests projected in urban space, the idea of public landscape can begin to serve as crucial common ground. In the light of the city’s ravenous development, both formal and informal, we propose to rethink once again the meaning of the UNBUILT, and envision its contemporary form.

The final review will treat the following project sites:

1 Ada Ciganlija & Ada Medjica—
Leisure Island and the City’s Water reserve
by Joel Hösle and Yves Merkofer

2 Great War Island—
Nature Reserve at the Heart of the City
by Matilde Negri and Andrew Suiter

3 Zvezdara Šuma—
Observatory on a Forested Hilltop
by Eric Bonhôte and Fabrizio Gramegna

4 Highway Corridor—
Industrial Zone under (Green) Cover
by Michiel Gieben and Katarina Savic

5 Third Belgrade Pond—
Privatised Wetlands in the Periphery
by Melina Ehrler and Mélanie Lai

6 Kumodraž Slopes—
Agriculture Besieged by Settlements
by Toja Coray and Daria Ryffel

7 Avala Mountain—
Monuments at the Metropolitan Fringe
by Beatrice Kiser and Corina Tripet

Followed by drinks and bbq!

Architecture of Territory invites you to the final review of this spring’s territorial studio project LAC LÉMAN—COMMUNES.

The agricultural areas on the slopes surrounding Lac Leman are examples par excellence of a highly urbanised countryside, with educated, wealthy and international population and businesses. These are areas attracting a high influx of population, mostly absorbed in the small-scale structure of villages. Still today, the commune (and the village) represent the basic spatial scale and order at which most traditional Swiss values are anchored (autonomy, neutrality, direct democracy, pragmatism, flair for order, etc). This miniature territorial universe is still readable in the map of Switzerland with remarkable, if gradually eroding clarity. But in the age globalisation, many small structures, including the commune and its village, seem to loose their importance, or change beyond recognition. Urbanisation and globalisation produce structures in the territory at much larger scales than the commune: in fact, often too large to be comprehended. This is a vague space of flows of resources, people and capital, whose dimensions span the entire planet. Precisely for this reason, in this semester we will consider the meaning of locality.

The final review of Lac Léman—Communes treated the following project sites:

1 Commune Bourg-En-Lavaux
World Heritage Vineyards—Landscape as Common Resource
by Nusaibah Khan, Moritz Köhler

2 Commune Abondance
Alpine Resorts—The Future of the Productive Commons
by Bettina Baggenstos and Lara Motschi

3 Commune Bardonnex
Geneva’s Surface d’Assolement—Frozen landscapes of Campagne Genevoise
by Oliver Burch and Sarah Stieger

4 Commune Saint-Genis-Pouilly
L’Autre Genève —Suburb without Common Interest
by Sarah Weber and Rebekka Neff

5 Commune Le Chenit
The Watchmaking Valée de Joux—Craft as Common Resource
by Daniel Rea Kragskov, Bess Laaring and Tulsi Vadalia

6 Commune Aubonne
Arc Lemanique—Living and working on the Gold Coast
by Philipp Bosshardt and Anna Moroni.

Followed by drinks and bbq!

Architecture of Territory invites you to the final review of LAC LÉMAN—METROPOLITAN COUNTRYSIDE, a territorial studio project.

The agricultural areas on the slopes surrounding Lac Leman are examples par excellence of a highly urbanised countryside, with educated, wealthy and international population and businesses. These are areas attracting a high influx of population, mostly absorbed in the small-scale structure of villages. The investigation shows how such “metropolitan countryside” landscapes are organised, and how they presently transform. The proposed projects—on eight selected sites around the lake—discuss the nature of “growth” in the trans-border context, and the status and function of cultural landscape and agriculture for the metropolis.

1 Lavaux UNESCO Vineyards — Effects of Heritage Status
Alexander Schmid, Tamino Kuny

2 Rhone Delta — A Productive Urban Grid
Sven Fawer, Vincent Phoen, Tobias Stich

3 Evian Plateau — Strategic Landscape of Water
Elena Pibernik, Selina Streich

4 Genève Campagne Rive-Gauche — (Agri) Garden-city
Joshua Andres, Tobias Häusermann

5 Plaine de l’Aire, St. Julien — Cross-Border Countryside
Sara Graf, Francesco Lupia, Urban Steiner

6 Cern — Knowledge Countryside
Natascha Kellner, Jeanne-Marie Léchot

7 La Côte — Tax Haven Countryside
Alessandro Accardo, Martin Ineichen

8 Lac Léman — A Unifying Figure
Cyril Dériaz, Robin Gevisier, Vincent Lai Yee Foo

Followed by drinks and bbq!

Architecture of Territory invites you to the final review of ARCADIA, our first research and design studio on European Countryside.
This studio series aims to explore the terra incognita of the countryside, its radical mutations, and its urban potentials.
The mythical Arcadia and the landscapes of Peloponnese in Greece, have served as our first countryside case study. The project is organized as an east-west section through the territory of Peloponnese, running from coast to coast—from Epidaurus to Olympia, through the mountains of Arcadia. Along this territorial section, we worked with four groups of students on four related investigations:

1 Arcadian Villages—Countryside in the European Mountains.
2 Olive Groves—Countryside of Agricultural Production.
3 Olympia—Countryside as Heritage Landscape.
4 Local Coast of Ilia—Seaside Countryside

Drinks and BBQ to follow.