Special Topics in Architecture Design

Organized as an experimental studio, the program centers around questions of climate change and its interactions with the built environment. Against this backdrop students investigate the designer’s agency and translate climate science and environmental research into architectural concepts, while activating environmental sensibilities. Stepping back from the immediacy of solving problems we rather work with the dynamics in play.

Unstable Grounds & Fluid Environments

This term the program will focus on Unstable Grounds and Fluid Environments investigating instabilities and extreme environments not as a backdrop but rather as agent in the narrative. In the face of un-precedented change, characterized by extreme weather events, social and political disruption, and rapid technological advancements, the studio envisions potential futures for our communities. It serves as a laboratory for design research exploring instabilities rather than static conditions. Projects will embrace those fluid environments aiming at producing new knowledge that can be translated to diverse contemporary contexts. Flooding, extreme cold or heat, high pollution, and alpine risk zones are test beds for an architectural design to be developed. 

_Proposal Presentation

_Research Presentation

_Midterm Presentation

_Final Presentation

10:45  - 12:15 Seminarraum 05 / 06 (OKPV, 2.OG)

01_Research

16.10.2025 | Kick off | introduction | organization

23.10.2025 | Proposal Presentation

30.10.2025 | Research

06.11.2025 | Research Presentation | team-building

02_Project Development

13.11.2025 | Team Meeting

20.11.2025 | Team Meeting

27.11.2025 | Team Meeting

04.12.2025 | MIDTERMS

03_Project Presentation

11.12.2025 | Team Meeting

18.12.2025 | Team Meeting

08.01.2026 | Team Meeting

15.01.2026 | FINALS