In this course, we will explore the conditions of a new climate scenario for Zurich, projecting a shift from a temperate to a subtropical climate zone, a transition likely to occur by 2070. Course participants will be asked to investigate this future scenario by juxtaposing existing environments, collecting urban landscape and vegetation samples south of the Alps (Ticino) and transposing them to Zurich.
This semester, we will investigate topographic transformations though a historical lens. We will use historical aerial pictures to reconstruct georeferenced 3D terrain models of the past. These historical topographies will be compared to recent surveys to illustrate dynamic conditions within the territorial geometry.
The course introduces digital design methods in landscape architecture at the interface between the analog and the digital. In close cooperation with the design studio, students learn tools for topological analysis, digital fabrication of models, spatial capturing techniques and digital modeling methods.
The fallow land Hardturm in Zurich invites the exploration of human and non-human functions, where the urban green space serves as habitat for wildlife and platform for ecological processes. Students will become neighbors on the same square, and will need to find a compromise between the sites that they chose as their reference.
The goal of this course is to expand the perception of urban streams and imagine ways to restore their visual or audible presence in Zurich, to openly think about new concepts for such a place. The course participants choose a sector along the Dolderstrasse to be reimagined by breaking up the existing street and eventually revealing parts of the hidden Wolfbach.
The goal of this course is to expand the perception and imagination about the Seebahngraben. The goal is not to produce an exact and feasible proposal to cover the railway trench, but to openly think about new concepts for such a space.
The course introduces digital design methods in landscape architecture at the interface between the analog and the digital. In close cooperation with the design studio, …
This course will create a section of the Uetliberg. As a part of methodical refinement, 3D laser scanning and point cloud modeling methods, developed at …
Course participants will perform a remote site study on topography and floods in the urbanized high plains of Madagascar. By inspecting point cloud models, designers can understand how a site’s terrain is arranged, in which direction the water flows or where it stagnates, and what the dominant characteristics of the site are.
