Beginning with the plants and minerals of Europe’s ecoregions, Planting Buildings explores regenerative land management practices through the design of radical new housing systems from cork, reed, wheat, eelgrass, cattail, pine, oak and eucalyptus. Each of these materials respect the labour of the human body, contemporary standards of comfort, and work within planetary limits.
Participants
MATERIAL CULTURES LONDON, UK Summer Islam, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 1989. Lives and works in London, UK. George Massoud, Beirut, Lebanon, 1989. Lives and works in London, UK. Paloma Gormley, London, UK, 1987. Lives and works in London, UK. Francesca Leibowitz, London, UK, 1992. Lives and works in London, UK. Sara Sherif, Geneva, Switzerland, 1995. Lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.
Team
Students: Nikola Endres, Anna Hess, Elina Leuba, Annick Bächle, Maximilian Bächli, Manuel Scherrer, Senga Grossmann, Antoine Hansen, Caspar Trueb, Luca Bolfing, Pascal Hiestand, Carla Waeber, Arianna Charbon, Moritz Hahn, Andrej Harnist, Stan Bezencon, Philippe Jenny, Dominik Koch, Anton Krebs, Aurelia Perschel, Giacomo Rossi, Ella Bacchetta, Léna Grossenbacher, Elisa Nadas, Anna Caviezel, Chiara Hergenröder, Jamila Scotoni; Teaching Collaborators: Rachael Milliner, Felix Hilgert, Werner Schmidt, Nicolas Balmelli, and Rémi Jourdan
Thanks
ETH Material Archiv
