Course No.: 848188
Teaching: Georg Grasser & Marjan Colletti
The Alps are a dynamic, living entity—a slow, beautiful performance in deep time. They breathe, shift, erode, and grow while being overlaid with layers of decaying human infrastructure—historical avalanche defences, ski lifts, and hydropower structures—now out of sync with climatic, ecological, and social realities.Recoding the Obsolete begins with these found sites, treating obsolete structures as material reservoirs and frameworks for intervention. Using multi-material additive manufacturing, students will reimagine remote production chains to metabolize existing constructs into updatable systems. By integrating environmental data, computational design, and circular material strategies, they will develop architectural projects that create new interfaces between ecosystems and human presence.The studio’s core questions are: how can we rethink the ageing-out alpine structures to create regenerative architectural interventions, avoiding new layers of extraction? What does it mean for architecture to behave as a metabolic organism, exchanging energy, materials, and information with its environment? How can architectural objects act as interfaces, making invisible ecological processes perceptible?
