Students: Nikolina Angelova, Gianmaria Beer, Monika Brtan, Ioana Danila, Vinzenz Egger, Adrienne Enz, Romano Fischer, Laura Franceschini, Vivienne Galliker, Takayoshi Goto, Monika Grabski, Halima Hassan, Meret Imhof, Rolf Imseng, Stepanie Nünlist, Besjana Ramadani, Christopher Reisinger, Mike Rüede, Dara Rüfenacht, Lorenz Strologo, Yibin Yang , Marco Yue
Team: Prof. Hubert Klumpner, Melanie Fessel, Diogo Rabaça Figueiredo
The studio will re-design, re-program, and re-invent an innovation zone for the re-
establishment of a new model for a harbor city, designing beyond the land and the water.
Rijeka, as the center of shipbuilding in the Adriatic Sea, is known to be a harbor with a
city. This studio is proposing the design of a coastal paradigm for the Mediterranean
and generating an alternative city development model for Rijeka, the European
Capital of Culture 2020. Rijeka is a city on the border between Italian and Slavic
spheres of influence. This valley was, over centuries, the natural division between
languages, nations, and political systems. Setting borders and shifting borders will
be a design strategy for the studio, proposing a Special Cultural Zone bridging both
sides of the river in Školjić. The zone was the source of energy, drinking water, and
work, intensively used by industry. Today the area is very close to the city center,
providing a unique opportunity for developing Rijeka’s urban qualities. Students
will design solutions by prototyping the process for a new urban paradigm in the
context of environmental, social, and governance issues. We provide the base for
each student to develop her/his multi-disciplinary approach that builds urban
design projects upon common ground. Students will be encouraged to interpret the
United Nations (Sustainable Development Goals) SDG’s, articulating an individual
and critical position on the potential role of the architect to guide a design process
within broader social, political, and economic systems. Informed by the chairs
ongoing research in the Balkan region, starting in Athens, Sarajevo, this semester,
engages in Rijeka, Croatia, with teaching, making, and researching the city.
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