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Summer School Ticino 2024 - Redesign of the public space in front of the Ethnographic Museum
The space between the Chiesa di San Martino and today’s local museum, Ca da Rivöi, originally formed a public square called "Mimoir": it was the gathering place for the community to discuss the political and social developments of the village. Since the 1950s, with the construction of infrastructure such as the kindergarten, the elementary schools in 1964, the conversion of the old farmhouse into an ethnographic museum in 1969, and its expansion in 2000, an increasingly important face-to-face relationship has developed between the church and these new public functions. Today, the dividing road space has become nothing more than traffic infrastructure for cars. The poor visibility around the curve and the interrupted sidewalk make crossing the street dangerous for pedestrians.
The project proposes to re-establish the meeting point between the school grounds, the museum, and the church by transforming the road surface in line with the principles of tactical urbanism, traffic speed will be reduced. The museum forecourt will feature a fountain that collects rainwater, channeling it through a canal to the new rain garden in front of the extension. A new pathway to the central garden making it openly visible and inviting to all.
tutors Alessio De Gottardi, Achille Pata, David Moser and Lian Liana Stähelin
with Elena Cuzzelli, Lea Cozzio, Philipp Scheidegger, Hussain Anwar Wanas, Jason Schweizer, Richard Schmassmann, Sahra Strizzolo, Sven Leuenbarger
Summerschool Ticino organised by I2a Istituto internazionale d’architettura
in collaboration with HSLU Hochschule Luzern
The refurbishment of the Enoteca is the centrepiece of a transformation in which the spatial disposition is adapted to the new challenges of the winery.
Founded in 1950, the winery has undergone a period of gradual expansion, adding facilities as needed without extensive long-term planning. The reorganization makes it possible to concentrate the warehouse on one level, which improves operational efficiency, and to move the enoteca to the inner courtyard to enhance the garden and create a spacious outdoor area.
The proximity to the people, the project and the surroundings allowed us to take a closer look and experience the site. We got to know the local craftspeople and collaborated with them. We were not an external architectural office, but an integral part of everyday life on the construction site. This allowed us to establish atypical work processes and work with local materials: Sand from the glacier sand pit, lime putty and hemp bricks from the surrounding area. We reused practically all of the demolition materials. New shelves, walls and tables were created from the old false floors and furnishings of the wine shop.
We claim that the history can be felt in the materials and surfaces, the patina and the traces of manual labour radiate something that may have gone out of fashion, but has every reason to return.
Alessio De Gottardi, Béla Dalcher, David Moser, Dzulija Jakimovska, Lian Liana Stähelin e Matthias Müller Klug
with Dario Bianchi, Roger Messerli, Grace Prince and Luca Locatelli
Building physics Jordan Kuoto
Lighting design Lucespazio
Sustainability consulting Trebogea
Firms Nembrini & Co. SA, Color Project S.R.L, Molteni & Co. SA, Tarcisio Rossi Sagl, Crotta Elia Sagl, Munari SA, Conti falegnameria
Since 2023, various artists and cultural practitioners have been working in the heritage-listed Zeughaus 4 on the Zurich Kasernenareal. With the departure of the cantonal police, the area has become accessible to the public and is in interim use until 2026. From January-May 2023, the architecture collective squadra created workspaces for the Maison Shift association on the upper floor of the Zeughaus. The rooms serve as a meeting and exchange space for fashion designers that are driving the transition to a sustainable textile industry.
The concept of sustainability has been incorporated into the planning and construction process carried out by the architects themselves, which has also enabled a flexible planning process and the consistent reuse of building components. Materials that were found on site were reused: The panels from the former shooting range serve as shelves and counters. Previous tire storage racks were turned into walls and furniture. All components can be removed and passed on.
Alessio De Gottardi, David Moser, Lian Liana Stähelin, Luca Bazelli and Thierry Vuattoux
with Andrea De Gottardi, Ella Eßlinger, Grace Oberholzer, Jasper Engelhardt, Julian Märkel, Norma Clematide, Romain Iff and Sophie Keel
photos: Alessio De Gottardi, David Schönen and Luca Bazelli
for Maison Shift
Badenerstrasse is an approximately five-kilometer-long road in the west of Zurich. Nowadays this corridor stands as a testament to the life and activity that has always characterised it. Yet, despite its inherent vibrancy, the actual spatial quality and design of this corridor leave much to be desired. Bicycle enthusiasts and daily commuters alike find it challenging to navigate the area, given the interruption of the bike lanes. The trasformation principle creates a green network of high capacity bicycle lanes that connect different parts of the city. The trees cool the street temperatures in the hot season, promote biodiversity and give shelter also in case of rain. Slow speed crossing points allow the intersection of public transports and bicycles lanes with a reduced motorised private transport. The crossing point are designed to be as small as possible, following the shapes of the minimum turning curve while creating space for special parking area for delivery vehicles.
Alessio De Gottardi
Test planning in collaboration with the research «E-Bike-City: Designing sustainable streets initiative (D-BAUG) » part of DAS ETH in spatial planning 2023: Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen / traffic and transport planning with Clarissa Livingston
Part of the open call of Umverkehr Crowdplanning « für ein grünes Zürich»
The Château de Dompierre building complex lost its function as an agricultural settlement in the 20th century. The project consists of targeted interventions in the existing buildings and their surroundings. The goal is to restore the ecological balance that once reigned on the site and revitalize it through various complementary uses: the practice of permaculture, the creation of an exchange space where conferences and workshops can be organized in nature, as well music and art residencies.
Alessio De Gottardi and A.A Architecte Associe
with Dzujlia Jakimovska, Vasco Medici, Magdalena Talarczyk, Matteo Motorselli, Permaculture design: Andrej Steinauer and Sereina Stähli
The rural house in Châtillon was built in the 18th century as the first building in the village. It embodies the traditional rural architecture of its time and is typical of the region. The exterior is listed in the heritage inventory of the Canton of Fribourg.
Until the 1970s, it was inhabited by an old lady and her goats, which warmed the house from the cellar. The living space consisted of a kitchen, a living room and a bedroom. The attic with its crippled hipped roof served as a hay store and drying room and was accessed by a staircase from the outside.
Since then, the house has been used as a weekend domicile by the owner's family from Basel. The interior conversion was intended to make the house more homely, provide access to the attic and preserve the building in the long term. The wooden façade in the attic can be dismantled as shutters. The external appearance of the building is thus retained in its entirety. Traditional, local materials were used for the conversion.
Matthias Müller Klug
with Lucas Vidensky and Alessio De Gottardi
The conversion was a balancing act between a shared vision and the need to always adapt and react to the found substance. Together with local craftsmen, many friends and students who wanted to gain practical construction experience, we were working on Casa Giuseppina for four summers.
The many people involved inhabit the house. We are in dialogue with the locals of Mosogno di Sotto, how to treat other abandoned houses and in which way we can contribute to the commons of the settlement.
Lian Liana Stähelin, Isabel Lehn-Blazejczak and Florian Stieger
with Ljubica Arsic, Caspar Bultmann, Jonas Butscher, Gülsah Canli, Olivia Leah Eckell, Jasper Engelhardt, Carlo Erzinger, Valeria Falletta, Daniel Fuchs, Kathrin Füglister, Cindy Gloggner, Agustin Jacky, Sarah Jacky, Jonas Jakob, Radovan Jovicic, Nora Klinger, Cédric Moser, David Moser, Tizian Naterop, Anna Schudel, Moritz Schudel, Marie Seeger, Sarah Silbernagel, Jonas Stähelin, Peter Stieger, Michele Tortelli and Raphael Ziltener.
Photos: Dario Bosio and Pierre Marmy
‹S AY - swiss architecture yearbook 2023›, nominated for publication and exhibition by Stiftung Architektur Schweiz and SAM
The village of Mosogno di Sotto is set off the road and has more houses than inhabitants. Detached from the medieval village center stands the former mill: the 'Casetta'.
Together with many friends and local craftsmen, the abandoned building was transformed into a modest living quarter, where one lives with the seasons. The building process was a balancing act. All building materials had to be carried down on foot or flown in by helicopter. The constant presence on site made it possible to make constant adjustments to the existing building fabric and to include components that did not urgently need to be replaced in the reconstruction. Only the most essential things were brought into the village.
Luca Bazelli and Lian Liana Stähelin
mit David Moser, Grace Oberholzer, Alessio De Gottardi, Jasper Engelhardt , Kaspar Looser, Béla Dalcher, Matthias Müller Klug, Cédric Moser, Sami Zattal, Jakub Dworak, Jonathan Egli, Florian Stieger und Isabel Lehn-Blazejczak
Photos: Dario Bosio und Pierre Marmy
‹Schweizer Preis für Putz und Farbe›, awarded with silver in category interior design
‹S AY - swiss architecture yearbook 2023›, nominated for publication and exhibition by Stiftung Architektur Schweiz and SAM
The Kulturlokal Schwarzer Peter is a non-commercial, inclusive, creative and meeting place led by the Verein für Gassenarbeit Schwarzer Peter on the Lysbüchelareal in Basel. It is run participatively all year round together with visitors from Schwarzer Peter and volunteers from the arts and music scene in Basel. Cultural events such as exhibitions, concerts and workshops are offered to the public. The entire infrastructure can be used free of charge by the visitors of the Gassenarbeit and all interested parties.
The cultural venue is designed as a temporary modular building made of wooden and shipping containers. The elements can be easily dismantled and are dimensioned for the size of lorries so that the building can easily be moved to other sites in the future. The windows and doors come from demolished buildings and thanks to reusable screw foundations there is no construction waste.
Matthias Müller Klug and Lian Liana Stähelin
in collaboration with Vesna Petrovic, Kevin Peterhans, Willi Moch, Naima Heim
for Verein für Gassenarbeit Schwarzer Peter, Stefanie Twerdy
Since more than 80 years the farm Colombera is part of the the agricultural landscape of the Magadino plain. We have been asked to have an overall view of the building ensemble to guarantee a strategic planning of all the future architectural interventions such as the renovation of the agritourism, reorganisation of the farmhouse, refurbishment and expansion of the cheese diary.
The family's residence house is getting more and more inadequate to meet the needs for generosity and comfort demanded by the growing family. In order to retain the future generations in place, it was decided to modernise and expand the residence units. Instead of building a new construction and separate the younger generation from the elder one has been conceived to redefine the boarders inside of the existing farmhouse. This is done by including a new living unit by carving out the spaces of the roof. The new design of the multigenerational house will give flexibility in allocation of use, so that it can adapt «continuously» to changing needs.
Alessio De Gottardi and Luca Bazelli
Livingspace is not absolute. It is a vessel for life, and affected by the lives that take place in it. It is shaped by the actions, possibilities, desires and needs of these lives. To inhabit a space means to interpret it, to appropriate it. Architecture determines the relationship between the part that is physically permanent and fixed and the part that can be changed by those who live in it.
Imogen Macpherson and Luca Bazelli
Our project captivates neither by a fancy construction nor by fancy materials, but much more by the empathy to which the long stay in a completely foreign area has brought us. We didn’t meet many people out there, but the few encounters were characterized by great sincerity and honesty. This has led us to this reserved, yet respectful design that tries to connect local tradition and needs. We looked around and considered what was really needed and what materials were available. The leather comes from a sheep truck that crashed in an accident. The wood was taken from the fences that divides the area into possession in a country where there was once no property.
Through contacts with nature, sceneries and their inhabitants, we seek to inspire people to reflect on the complex social and economic disputes that mark the agenda of the Mapuche-Tehuelche people until today. There is no future in architecture without a conciliatory memory between peoples in conflict.
Matthias Müller Klug and Alessio De Gottardi
in collaboration with Campo Abierto
longlisted Dezeen Awards 2020
selection Milano Design Film Festival 2021