"Summer Workshop" at the LAST
During this summer, the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) offered the opportunity to a certain number of students having followed Prof. Emmanuel Rey's project studio to detail some propositions imagined during the academic year for the development of the city of Bern.
This is how seven students - Adélie Aeberhard, Jonathan Brügger, Dorian Bürgy, Nicolas Fatio, Salomé Genzoni, Fabien Klopfenstein and Lucien Villiger - worked under the supervision of the assistants on the optimization of a selection of projects developed during the autumn and spring 2010-2011 semesters for the Waldstadt site. Having worked on various hypotheses, the students detailed architectural projects on the scale of the urban shape, the built complex, the building and its envelope.
This work, executed as much on plans as on scale models, allowed clarifying the proposed concepts, holding iterative discussions at various scales and homogenizing certain graphical aspects. Numerical modeling of the different projects was also used to calculate a set of quantitative data that provided interesting insights with regard to certain sustainability issues. To have such assets makes it possible to do various comparisons, particularly in the frame of built density, human density, compactness and efficiency
Addressing the sustainability from urban design to construction detail, this "Summer Workshop" was completely in line with the activities of the LAST, whose aim is precisely to analyze, explore and experience issues specific to the search for architectural contribution of to the sustainable city.