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Architecture / Engineering

New secondary school building, conversion of the old municipal building and replacement kindergarten building
Spreitenbach (2023)

Schweizer Hauser Architekten (SHA), Baden

1st. Place, full service competition

The new school grounds, an ensemble consisting of a new construction, the converted municipal building, and the replacement building for the kindergarten, is anchored in the neighborhood by the new north-south axis. The exterior relationship between the new school complex and the existing Boostock school complex is resolved with the generous open stairway.

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AI in Architecture:
Generative Affective Design

Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger,
Digital Building Technologies,
ETH Zurich

Architecture is a field at the crossroads of the arts and sciences, which is influenced by countless factors that can be difficult to identify explicitly.

The aim of this case study is to investigate the relationship between architectural space and its influence on the observer.

The question arises if a ML-aided algorithm could be trained to recognize and produce architectural designs according to certain qualitative criteria, like pleasingness or privacy.

Double Exposition (2021)

Chair Deuber; ETH Zurich

The project aimed at creating "airy" architecture, by using the local stone as primary construction material.

As a towering peak with a railway to the top, Rochers de Naye is the ideal site for a gallary where opposites encounter.  

By playfully swinging around the ridge line, the central wall stages two exposition spaces, wich are saturated with either the imposing alpine panorma or the endless gaze over the lac leman region.

Wohnraum - Stadtraum
Wien (2019)

Chair Peter; ETH Zurich
with Werner Neuwirth

The course is concerned with space both on an urban scale but also of the individual private space.

The urban constellation aimed at creating a neighborhood that is both protecting the visitor but remains permeable for easy access.

The apartments are arranged in a configuration that allows every unit to have their own entry space as well as create maximum of personal outdoor surface that is shielded from arriving and departing tenants.  

Chalet Valaisan (2018)

Chemin de Plalessu 2
1873 Val d'Illiez
Switzerland

FIRE; ETH Lausanne

The task to measure, represent in drawing and by model in 1/20 of an typical chalet of the canton of Valais was given to groups of six.

An additional detail was selected and represented individually.

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Movement 3 (2018)

Chair Taillieu; ETH Lausanne

Four towers, composed out of four disconnected walls, are the remainder of an hypothetical ruin of the "Architectenwoning Marc Dessauvage" and set the starting point of the proposal.

The interventions are based on developments made for Movement 2 in the previous semester.

The platforms create various individual spaces along the spiralling path from the bottom to the top of the project.

Replay House II (2017)

Chemin du Viaduc
1008 Prilly
Switzerland

ALICE; ETH Lausanne

The "Replay" project was a summer workshop, with the goal of creating an exposition space by recycling the scarp wooden structure resulting from the first year's final project "House II".

The design and construction of the bar was my responsibility. It aimed to offer a space for two bartenders to work comfortably, by using the entire potential of the scrap and producing synergies between the bar and the rhythmic roof structure.

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Replay House II

Operating theater (2013)

Hirslanden Klinik Birshof
Reinacherstr. 28
4142 Münchenstein
Switzerland

Hochstrasser Glaus & Partner Consulting AG

During the renovation of one operating theaters, I was given the task to layout and dimention the ventilation ducts, research product catalogues and solve spacial diffulties.

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Portfolio

Various

Material Renaissance (2022)

3 Episodes

Chair Brandlhuber; ETH Zurich

Produced with Lorenzo Lamarche

Material Renaissance is an exploration in three parts of the contemporary construction mindset and how it relates to the use of stone and compressed earth as a primary construction material.

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Mäusebunker (2020)

Chair Brandlhuber; ETH Zurich

Produced with Lorenzo Lamarche
Voice acting by Alec Rosenthal

"Mäusebunker - a double monument" offers a new take on the rise and fall of brutalism as it follows the story of the Central Animal Laboratories of the Free University of Berlin.

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Anniversary of Swiss Special Forces (2019)

A montage of demonstrations presented on the 75th and 50th anniversaries of the Infantry Grenadiers and Parachute Reconnaissance respectively. All participants are conscripted citizens, not professional soldiers.

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Virtual Wirtshaus (2018)

4 Episodes

Chair Brandlhuber; ETH Zurich

"Virtual Wirtshaus" tells the story of the alpine village of Lech, which goes on an adventure to overcome it's social and political stalemate by embracing virtual reality technology.

Of the six originally planned episodes only four were finally produced. The two canceled episodes treated the personal possibilties and risks of the technologies.

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Recycled Table (2018)

Workshop Semaine ENAC; EPFL

In groups of six, we set out on creating a piece of furniture, exclusively made out of scrap.

The used components are a slightly damaged glass handrail, four metal plates and some scrap metal from a laser cutter.

Werk (2014)

68 Pages, hard cover

As an hommage to Jak Tuggener's "Fabrik",
"Werk" offers an romantic insight in an polymechanic's workshop.

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Rebbergstrasse 48
5621 Zufikon
Switzerland​​

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