“Migrating Palm” On March 1, 2024, the Swiss Federal Council decided to ban the marketing of invasive plants species such as the Ticino palm (Chinese windmill palm), with the ban taking effect on September 1, 2024. One month shortly before we carry up a young Chinese palm from Ticino to the Rhône Glacier.“Made of Solar” (Mettler/Studer/He), Birkhäuser, 2024
enjoy the sun at night“Forest project” is an inorganic, imaginative, and mobile forest on the parking lot at Bellerive-Plage. “254nm Laundry Rack” x office for ordinary objects “Sandy” x (820) is the new school building extending and rethinking the „Campus im Sand“ in Visp by Paul Morisod and Edouard Furrer from the early 1970s. “Fountainhead” x (820) completes the building ensemble of the former SRF radio studio with a sculptural head as the new city loggia.“Call me if you get lost” x (Ludwig Engel, Meghan Rolvien and Alice Tripet).
Hybrid uses of buildings, both programmatic and seasonal, will become indispensable in the future, as space becomes increasingly scarce and precious. Architecture is reframed here as the discipline of minimally invasive reprogramming. Streams of water and flow of human run parallel in the future.
“The bridge in the dunes” extends and disrupts the path network of an infrastructure graveyard.
“Where river moves mountain” in the year 1513, a massive landslide occurred north of the village of Biasca. The debris cone, known as "Buzza di Biasca," dammed the Brenno River, creating a temporary lake. Just two years later, the waters broke through the debris cone and flooded the region of Bellinzona and the Magadino Plain. Five hundred years later, the northern part of the "Buzza" was restored using the excavated material from the Gotthard Base Tunnel. Today, a chestnut grove grows on millions of tons of deposited material.“Le Bonhomme” x (820, Thomas Compeers)“Anti-Aging-Creme” across centuries, from merely sustaining or invigorating the flow of time, countless mechanisms for its production and manipulation evolved:
Now, time has become a variable that we can actively stretch, compress, extract, mobilize, and navigate.“Concentric forest” the whole life of the plant with all its annual rings is spread out in a panorama in the peeling machine.“Java” uses the waste heat from a data centre to feed energy into the heating and cooling supply network of the Zurich south district.“Echolot” mediates between the agencies of the hikers, bats and glacial water in the secluded 80-meter-deep Ova da Bernina gorge.“Dongmen Teehouse” x (Huo Ran, Miles Mao and Meng Zi)“Learn to swim“ architecture must give and be given shape to material organisation, living and nonliving, to connect, and to embrace friction.“(No Return) Survived buildings and lost lives” x (Myroslava Liakhovych, Meghan Rolvien) investigates Lviv's modernist buildings through the lens of their inhabitants, and delves into the aspirations and tragedies of interwar architecture.“Regenbogenfisch”