Innovedum Teaching Project (completed)
This project integrates the teaching of heritage preservation, construction and sustainability with architectural design. The design studio on building within the existing context, an elective on heritage preservation and an on-site design-build seminar week are aligned to offer a focus semester on repair and maintenance in architecture.
In the context of the climate crisis, resource scarcity, and the transformation of our cities, the following has become clear: Our task as architects is no longer to build new, but to take care of our built environment, which we inherit from previous generations. This requires a deep understanding of existing buildings and their construction, the ability to act in a caring but also creative manner with appropriate tools and strategies.
This heritage-led teaching project combines an architectural design studio (Studio Tom Emerson) with the elective Repair (Prof. Silke Langenberg), a design-build seminar week and focus works (optional) to teach students to apply the methods of heritage preservation (Denkmalpflege) to architectural design. Students will survey carefully selected objects, design creative repair strategies and maintenance measures, apply these on-site (seminar week), and reflect on their learnings and failures. These will be accompanied by inputs on the theory and practice of heritage preservation, and self-reflection on the repairability of designs. Students will develop an attitude toward prolonging the lifespan of buildings first, and designing new second.
This project strongly builds on the planned curriculum revision at D-ARCH which envisions integrated design studios and will serve as a mock-up. The insights gained will be carefully documented and communicated within D-ARCH and beyond. The course will be monitored with the help of the steering committee of the curriculum revision.
Teaching Team
Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg, Salome Schepers, Anne Fabritius, Reto Wasser, Construction Heritage and Preservation, ETH Zurich (Lead)
Alessandro Tellini, Christian Egli, Liliana Siewczyk, Henry Welch, Raplab ETH Zurich
Prof Dr Andreas Schwarting, Academic Guest, ETH Zurich
Anja Beer, David Merz, Visiting Studio Beer Merz, ETH Zurich
Collaboration Partners
Raplab, ETH Zurich
Visiting Studio Beer Merz, ETH Zurich
Kathrin Schütte, Konservatorin
Ronnie Gaensli
Supported by
Innovedum Fonds ETH Zurich
Berghotel Schatzalp, Davos
Casty Wohnen AG, Davos
Thymos AG, Lenzburg
Students
Lucia Bernini, Rachel Bigler, Adriano Cangemi, Lorenzo Dellolio, Alessandro Di Paola, Lorenzo Franceschini, Sarah Gischig, Ruirao Guan, Andri Heini, Nadine Jakob, Leon Kallert, Paula Kern, Joel Köber, Claudia La Valle, Aparna Lakshmy, Andreas Lanz, Philémon Léchot, Leonie Leitlein, Vincent Mathez, Leonie Mischler, Nikola Nikolic, Deepthi Puthenpurackal, Josias Regli, Loïc Rey, Lukas Riener, Sarina Schneider, Alina Shade, Mirjam Tröndle, Peng Zhang
Teaching Team
Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg, Reto Wasser, Elischa Bischof, Anne Fabritius, Fabio Neuhaus, PD Dr Robin Rehm, Construction Heritage and Preservation, ETH Zurich (Lead)
Prof. Tom Emerson, Lucio Crignola, Michelle Geilinger, Julius Henkel, Amy Perkins,
Chair of Design and Construction, ETH Zurich
Christian Egli, Liliana Siewczyk, Henry Welch, Raplab ETH Zurich
Asel Maria Aguilar Sanchez, Dr. Timothy Wangler, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich
Collaboration Partners
ETH Zurich Raplab, ETH Zurich
Fischer Restaurierung, Dalin
Supported by
Innovedum Fonds ETH Zurich
Berghotel Schatzalp, Davos
Bosshard-Farben AG, Zurich
Thymos AG, Lenzburg
Malerhandwerk Herbert Mäder AG, Zurich
Haus der Farbe – Fachschule für Gestaltung in Handwerk und Architektur, Zurich
Students
Haya Alshahel, Jérome Ammann, Stan Baumann, Adrien Bossel, Chiara Bosshard, Muriel Brünker, Manuel Büchel, Dan Carlberg, Aretí Gijzen, Pénélope Grégoire, Frida Grönberg, Keivan Haghighat Shoar, Elena Hauenstein, Roxani Heltriegel, Yufei Li, Maja Liro, Anna-Lena Ludewig, Vincent Mathez, Sho Sasaki, Lisa Schmitz-Pfeiffer, Tim Stettler, Marc Vendrell Puig, Dag von der Decken, Morris Widmer, Audrey Würges