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Two Students’ Theses at STL on Densification, Housing, and Ur-ban Social Sustainability
Chiara Personeni and Laura Périat, two master students in architecture from the de-partment D-ARCH, successfully submitted their theses in the Spatial Transformation Laboratories STL group. Both theses underline that the topics of urban densifica-tion, social sustainability, and housing gain in relevance – also from a young archi-tects’ perspective.
IPA 21
The "Interdisciplinary Project Activity" took the students of the study programme Spatial Development and Infrastructure Systems to the “Rhenish Right Bank Corridor” of Cologne in the week before the start of the semester. Many exciting insights were gained during this week, which will be elaborated into an integrated development strategy by the students in the course of the semester.
Roman Streit won an ETH-medal in 2020
In Switzerland, a significantly increasing population is faced with scarce space resources for housing development. The efficient use of land represents a constitutional obligation, reinforced when the Spatial Planning Act (Raumplanungsgesetz) was revised by Swiss voters in 2013.
Cooperation project "Smart Use" completed
Digital tools for the analogue city
Cooperation project "Streetwise" completed
The "Streetwise" cooperation project was concluded on 2 March at a closing event with the president of the Cantonal Council, Ms Carmen Walker Späh.