Progetto I: Atelier Bru

The semester will take the form of a project that starts with specific research, develops into an idea and then culminates in a concrete spatial project.
You will work in groups of two or three and the semester will be divided into 3 sequences.
You will develop iconographic research that will lead you to the construction of active performative devices.
Then, you will be confronted with an ordinary suburban area of Geneva, which you will have to transform.
In the final phase, you will bring your research and ideas to life, constructively, technically and spacially.
The aim of the studio is not to look at architecture from an aesthetic point of view, but to use it to tackle societal challenges and improve everyday life.
We are inspired by what is real, and we believe that by making things, we are creating thought.
What changes things is the way we watch them, and our programme will train you both to look at things in terms of value and to define ways of transforming them.

We aim to seize economic requirements to transform constraints into levers, producers of qualities. These may well be tangible or intangible, prosaic or poetic, constant or unstable, general or occasional... As long as they are initiated by the economy and located far from any rationality.
Creating generosity, “excesses” that make the strength and uniqueness of a place.

In presenza

The semester will unfold in three chapters:
CHAPTER 1: MYTHOLOGY
CHAPTER 2: FINDING FREEDOMS
CHAPTER 3: BINDING FRAGMENTS

REVIEWS:
- Review I - Friday 17.10
- Review II - Friday 21.11
- Final Review - Thursday 18.12

• Geneva, CH, 19.09.25 - 21.09.25 (Obbligatorio)