STUDIO
The design studio will address the contemporary challenge of architectural and landscape design in a dry but flood prone area in times of climate change.
GUEST LECTURERS
Gerd Burla, Guy Nordenson, Emily Scott
ASSISTANTS
Ilmar Hurkxkens, Magdalena Kaufmann, Philipp Urech
STUDENTS
Coralie Berchtold, Stéphanie Chanson, Tania Depallens, Marco Derendinger, Basile Diem, Jens Fischer, Guillame Guisan, Karoline Heene, David Häusler, Sarina Meier, Fabian Meier, Andrea Micanovic, Mathäus Nierzwicki, Wieland Schwarz, Tabea Schäfer, Aline Sidler, Tanja Vallaster. Tristan Wicht, Andreas Winzeler, Sylwia Jezewska
SEMINAR WEEK
Arizona, USA / 13. – 24. March 2015
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The Architecture of New Resilient Settlements in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona
The FS2015 Landscape Architecture Design Studio of Prof. Christophe Girot proposes to investigate future architectural and landscape adaptations of water restrained settlements in the Arizona uplands of North America. The design studio will address the contemporary challenge of architectural and landscape design in a dry but flood prone area in times of climate change. The prime concern will be the study of the local topography to propose a resilient periodic water distribution network with seasonal settlement and cultivation. The studio will heavily rely on field analysis to thoroughly understand the inherent landscape structure, rainwater catchment and distribution in the dry Sonoran desert. The aim is to develop a range of applications at the architectural scale and the landscape scale that envision a (re)found attitude towards urban development.
The goal of the studio is to create a set of clearly defined design approaches. This will be achieved through evolving architectural and landscape design solution that pay special attention and incorporate topography, the dynamics of water systems, vegetation and human activities into a single whole. Students are asked to define how people can live in dry but flood prone landscapes in the wake of the 21st Century. They will be asked to work on a set of landscape scales in terms of topography. The combination of an architectural and landscape architectural approach should help generation a range of possibilities and vision for the future qualification of urban rivers in such degraded urban environments.
Field Trip Arizona – 2015
Student Work: Coralie Berchtold, Karoline Heene, Tanja Vallaster
Student Work: Tania Depallens, David Häusler
Student Work: Stéphanie Chanson, Andrea Micanovic
Student Work: Jens Fischer, Marco Derendinger
Student Work: Coralie Berchtold, Karoline Heene, Tanja Vallaster
