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Christopher Aebi
Title
The Journey of the Sandstone
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Affective Architectures
Supervision
An Fonteyne
Semester
HS23
The Bernese Sandstone has been Bern’s main building material for many centuries, shaping and defining the city like no other. It is estimated that about one point five million square meters of sandstone were extracted in the course of six hundred years in about a dozen quarries around the city. Today, only two remain active at a very low pace, mainly to sustain restoration efforts in the old town, since building laws still require all facades to be made specifically out of Bernese sandstone. One of these quarries is located at the foot of the Gurten, a hill in the outskirts of the city. It supplies the material for the restoration of the Münster, Bern’s most important cathedral. After their extraction, the stone blocks are brought to a storage location under a highway bridge. From there, they are transported to a workshop located along the river, where they are worked on by the stonemasons, after which the finished stone piece is brought to the Münster. This project proposes interventions at two sites along this spiritual path of the sandstone. The aim is to give these sites additional meanings, purposes and to make them accessible to the public.
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Tom Avermaete
Rosa Barba
Bernd Bickel
Philippe Block
Roger Boltshauser
Arno Brandlhuber
Adam Caruso
François Charbonnet, Patrick Heiz
Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein
Adrien Comte, Adrien Meuwly
Maria Conen
Jan De Vylder
Maarten Delbeke
Benjamin Dillenburger
Tom Emerson
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Teresa Galí-Izard
Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler
Stefan Holzer
Ludger Hovestadt
Mariam Issoufou
Momoyo Kaijima
Hubert Klumpner
Silke Langenberg
Sacha Menz
Débora Mesa Molina
Elli Mosayebi
Jacqueline Pauli
Freek Persyn
Anna Puigjaner
Arno Schlueter
Laurent Stalder
Alexandre Theriot
Milica Topalović
Philip Ursprung
Martina Voser
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Stephan Bischof, Norbert Föhn
Lilitt Bollinger
Carla Ferrando Costansa, Pablo Garrido Arnaiz
Oliver Lütjens, Thomas Padmanabhan
João Nunes
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Christophe Girot
Christian Schmid
Andrea Deplazes
Gion A. Caminada
Dietmar Eberle
Christian Kerez
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Annette Gigon, Mike Guyer
Peter Märkli
Markus Peter
Arthur Rüegg
Miroslav Sik
Annette Spiro
Flora Ruchat-Roncati
Ernst Studer
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