Angaben zur Professur

Lehrstuhl 

Professur A. Brillembourg / H. Klumpner

Typ 

Professur für Architektur und Städtebau

Standort 

ONA J 17

Webseite 

www.brillembourg-klumpner.arch.ethz.ch

Assistierende 

Hannes Gutberlet, Katerina Kourkoula, Danny Wills

Kontakt E-Mail 

wills@arch.ethz.ch

Angaben zur Entwurfsklasse

Typ 

Entwurf V-IX

Thema 

Urban Village

Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes 

Overview Imagine you are a family looking for affordable housing in the center of Zurich ? Imagine you are an immigrant arriving in Switzerland with little means and a great interest to live and work in a community environment instead of the anonymity of suburbia ? Imagine you grew up in Wiedikon but can no longer afford increasing rent-prices in your neighborhood, for yourself and your business? In this studio we would like to put you in this position. We would like you to develop an affordable mixed-use housing community on the Geroldareal in the heart of Zurich. We will ask you to develop concepts for those groups of society that cannot afford the rents of Europaallee and Niederdorf. Since recent years, Zurich continues to show an average vacancy rate for housing close to zero. The demand for housing has been outgrowing its supply by far while the exodus of the middle and upper class during the 1950s is being inversed. Those who can afford living in the center are taking advantage of short commutes and a great supply of public amenities. Low-income households are increasingly forced to exit the city to find cheaper housing on the city’s fringes or in suburban agglomerations. Meanwhile, in South America, Asia and Africa, the long-term consequences of urban expulsion are manifested in the expansive informal settlements located on the fringes of every larger city. At the same time, informal settlements such as the urban villages in Shenzhen and Torre David in Caracas represent surprising examples of vertical communities with a great sense of solidarity and spatial inventiveness. Zurich is not Caracas or Shenzhen, but is there something we can learn ? In this studio, we would therefore like to investigate whether these examples are applicable for a more saturated and developed context such as Zurich. Throughout Zurich there are only few examples at the building scale that have attempted to counteract market pressures. Cooperative housing projects such as the Kraftwerk 1 and Kalkbreite appear to be courageous oases within Zurich’s treacherous desert of rent inflating housing markets. What kind of spatial, economic and process-oriented strategies are needed to conceive housing alternatives for underprivileged households? What kind of structural systems and typological layouts are necessary to provide flexible structures for changing uses? This studio would like to tackle these pressing issues in order to provide constructive visions for increasing demands. Content The design studio focuses on the development of an urban village with mixed-income housing, small-scale commercial spaces and public amenities in Zurich West: an Open Village for the Geroldareal. We would like to challenge students to redefine the notion of an urban village in relation to openness in its broadest sense, ranging from open building structures to a mixed-use housing community that allows various occupation scenarios over different time periods. Our ingredients for an open village will come from different sources. Open building concepts have been present in the architectural discourse since LeCorbusier’s famous depiction of the Maison Domino construction principle. N.J. Habraken in his seminal book SUPPORTS took the idea of an open structure even further by imagining it as a means to anticipate changing user demands without relying on too much architectural design. Hans Widmer, swiss author of the 1980’s anti-capitalist utopia called “Bolo’ Bolo”, provided a potent vision for alternative communities that would reject market-oriented lifestyles and cherish collective mixed-use environments. The Chinese Urban Villages in Shenzhen represent built examples of diverse high-density communities for low-income residents within urban environments facing high economic pressures. Altogether, these examples at different scales will provide students with a powerful set of ingredients in order to develop high-density, low-income and mixed-use communities for central urban areas. A series of lectures, screenings, and discussions will accompany the design program to communicate the socio-political and historical context of housing in Zurich, and explore the field and discourse of similar design interventions in general. Selected guests will give lectures from the fields of architecture, urbanism, landscape, building technologies and associated disciplines, as well as experts from the Urban-Think Tank Chair.

Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte 

Entwurf, Staedtebau, Modellbau, Visualisierungen

Lernziele 

Goal Our studio will attempt to translate the structural concept of an open building together with the idea of an urban village to a socio-spatial model within an existing site. Proposals will be developed that extend the open building principle to the layout of a mixed-use community for about 500 households. Projects will be required to respond to existing conditions and buildings on the Geroldareal. Finally, the immediate context of Bahnhof Hardbrücke and Zürich West will represent an important aspect of consideration for the analysis as well as the design. The studio will help frame an understanding of the forces enabling cooperative housing communities and the potential behaviors, requirements and practices of its residents. It will also encourage the development of a critical position on the potential role of the architect to mediate a design process within broader social, political and economic systems. Training Throughout the semester, students will focus on developing transferable and practical skills – such as: - Developing drawing and modeling skills across a variety of media to represent architectural and urban ideas. - Responding to the complexity of urban problems through architectural solutions in a real life context. - Analyzing the various layers that shape a city (social, economic, political, infrastructural). - Anticipating the positions of urban actors from local, national and international levels of activity. - Bridging top-down policy with bottom-up practices. - Addressing changing demands of cities in industrialized countries with inflationary housing markets

LV-Nr. des Entwurfs 

051-1140-15

Zusätzliche integrierte Disziplin(en) 

Planung

Unterrichts-sprache 

English

Arbeitsweise 

Individual and Groupwork

Daten Zwischenkritiken 

15.04.2015

Datum Schlusskritik 

27.05.2015

Einführungs-veranstaltung 

17.02.2015

Zusätzliche Kosten 

CHF 0 (Schätzung, ohne allfällige Seminarwochenkosten)

Verfügbare Plätze 

26

Plakat des Entwurfs-programmes 

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