25/08/2020
Dies ist nicht nur ein wichtiges, sondern auch ein wesentliches Thema, mit dem wir uns jetzt befassen müssen! Wir sind gespannt auf die Ergebnisse!
Neue Stadtlandschaften // Brennpunkte Urbaner Verdichtung
Gastdozentin: Maren BRAKEBUSCH
Assistenz:
Violeta Burckhardt
Nicola Eiffler
Simon Kroll
This coming semester, Maren Brakebusch (Hea of the VOGT Berlin Office and member of the VOGT Management team), will be joining the ETH D-Arch staff with a design seminar focused on new urban landscapes and the reduction of the Urban Heat Island Effect through the landscape architectural practice.
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The world’s temperature is rising at an unprecedented rate due to climate change. This global phenomenon requires individual solutions based on local conditions in order to tackle the problems of density and heat in urban areas. Nevertheless, current heat reduction programmes describe fields of action and approaches that are selective and constrained by political and administrative boundaries.
The federalisation of Switzerland, however, has led to a unified, national, urban settlement along the Swiss Central Plateau, the extent of which is dictated by the geomorphology of Switzerland and the mountain ranges of the Jura and the Alps that surround it. The three metropolitan areas of Geneva, Basel and Zurich extend from east to west, which, in addition to their dense urban development, also show the greatest calculated rise in temperature.
In the design studio Neue Stadtlandschaften we will use cartographic and statistical surveys, digital and analogue, to explore the boundaries of the individual metropolitan areas in relation to their possible densification and cooling tendencies. In the coming autumn semester we will start our journey in the west with the metropolitan area of Zurich and continue in the spring semester with our second case-study: Basel.