Swiss lessons
Subtitle: teaching and research in architecture
By: laba EPFL ; studio director, Harry Gugger ; editing, Harry Gugger, Aurélie Blanchard, Gwendolyn Kerschbaumer, Götz Menzel
Contributors: École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Laboratoire Bâle
Publisher: Park Books; EPFL ENAC IIA laba
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Zürich; Basel
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9783906027340
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: City planning; Forecasting; Architecture; Urbanization; Urban ecology (Sociology); Study and teaching
Description: This book takes a look at Switzerland in 2048: what will the country look like in 35 years from an architectural, an urbanistic point of view. Extrapolating from figures of the last five years, a population of 15 million people is assumed. Even if growth in population is lower, demographic development will affect and transform the country's inhabitable territory and increase pressure on existing urban and rural areas and infrastructure dramatically. Existing categories, e.g. city, suburb, farmland, or wilderness, will be put to question.0Eight years after 'Switzerland: An Urban Portrait', a vast and influential research project carried-out by ETH Studio Basel (part of ETH Zurich), laba's students and teachers have been looking again at Switzerland's present state and present an outlook on urban and spatial developments for the forthcoming 35 years. Besides of abstract analysis of the territorial constitution, the students have designed specific urban interventions that again test the results of that analysis. Research findings and student projects are presented in spectacular graphics and maps, striking images, and plans.