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Design Studio

Metamorphosis Medellín - Making in the City

Medellín, Colombia
Design Studio Fall ’19

Existing and new infrastructure, concepts need to be re-invented for a new paradigm of what the design for a city of production and a Center for the 4th Industrial revolution (C4IR) can be. The studio researched and designed together with students in Medellín how the making, production, fabrication of the city itself can be at the heart of a novel industry.

  • Students
    Lorain Bernasconi, Matthias Bietenhard, Laura Boer, Albert Comas Sale, Gianluca Di Canio, Marco Fernandes Pires, Laura Franceschini, Patricia Gama, Meret Imhof, Rolf Imseng, Deniz Örün, Mike Rüede, Dara Rüfenacht, Angela Stadelmann, Anna-Lea Stalder, Daryl Thai, Derek Thai, Dario Toppan, Valentin Wenger, Armon Zimmermann
  • Team
    Prof. Hubert Klumpner
    Melanie Fessel
    Diogo Figueiredo
  • Goals
    The city of Medellín teaches us valuable lessons for development after winning the 2016 Global Smart City Award, and presenting three factors of the transformational potential of at work in Medellin:

    1.) physical environment 2.) programmatic transformation 3.) people’s resilience.
    The studio focused the design inside a 60 ha project area, prototypical urban and architectural projects on different scales in coalition with local stakeholders. Students will took a role developing solutions in collaboration with local partners Medellin City planning office, academia, and “RutaN” our domestic partners of the Swiss / World Economic Forum.

    The studio engaged in a multi-disciplinary approach that builds upon common ground. By tackling real-world urban challenges, this studio is looking to create qualities for the regeneration of public-, and workspaces, housing and that transcend the commercial plane.

    The studio is Informed by the chairs ongoing research on our book on SDG 11. The SECO on urban transformation research in COL links researching, learning and making the city an integrative design laboratory for the people living in the city.
  • Skills - Drawing & Representation
    Michael Walczak Introduction to Graphic Tools: Rhinoceros 3D, V-Ray, Grasshopper, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
  • Skills - Graphic Design
    Integral, Ruedi and Vera Baur
  • Elective Course -
    ‘ACTION! On the Real City: Mapping Narratives - Creative Georgraphies on Film’ is offered as an extension to the studio, teaching skills in 3D modeling, filmmaking, and animating
  • Student Workflow
    Groups (max. 2) / Individual
  • Languages
    German, English, Spanish
  • Location
    ONA, E25
  • ECTS Credits - Architectural Design V-IX
    ECTS Credits - 14
  • ECTS Credits - Integrated Discipline Planning
    ECTS Credits - 3
  • In Collaboration with
    Prof. Diego Ceresuela-Wiesmann (ETHZ-COL/PBU Medellín)
    Prof. Alejandro Restropo Montoya
    (PBU Medellín)
  • Research Partners
    ETH Wohnforum
    ETH Institute for Science,Technology and Policy
    SECO, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, Switzerland/Columbia
    World Economic Forum/C4IR
    IdB Inter-American Development Bank
    Pontificial Bolivarian University, Medellín Columbia
    Municipality Medellín, Columbia
  • In Collaboration With
    Alejandro Restrepo Montoya | Professor Architecture UPB
    Michael Walczak | ETH Zurich, CH
    Diego Ceresuela | ETH Zurich, CH
  • Final Review Guests
    Tom Avermaete | Professor ETH Zurich, Chair of History and Theory of Urban Design
    Marie Antoinette Glaser | ETH CASE, Wohnforum
    Momoyo Kajima | Professor ETH Zurich, Chair of Architectural Behaviorology
    Frank Henri Kurer | A&A Liegenschaften
    Daniela Sanjines | ETH CASE, Wohnforum
    Cristina Steingräber | Founder and Chief Editor, ArchiTangle
    Ricardo Ignacio Vélez Benedetti | Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Colombian Embassy in CH