Politecnico Di Milano
Ext. Professor at the Department of Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design
Architecture
Urban Planning
Research · Consulting
Palazzo Zuccari
Max-Planck-Institute Rome
Where the architectural research began
News
Eurac Research
FORort – Project for transdisciplinary local and regional planning
Urban Planning
Consulting new area Stadtwerke Brixen
Urban Planning
Consulting Latemar Dolomites Skiresort
Urban Planning
Consulting NOI-Techpark area
Noi-Tech Park
Design of the Alpha Innovation Lab
Services
Architecture
It is my particular curriculum vitae, on one hand as an experienced architect, on the other hand as former «Managing Director Research ETH Zurich» with the supervision of many different research projects and with the coordination of the urban planning research between the city of Zurich and ETH Zurich, which gives me an extraordinary background to think about a sustainable city.
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With the rise of individual mobility in the middle of the last century, urban planning as a discipline was fundamentally neglected. Priority was given instead to traffic planning. The result was the emergence of suburbs and agglomerations along landscape-defining transport infrastructures—sequences of isolated, self-contained individual buildings. Each parcel pursues its own logic, with its own individually sized driveway, parking area, and boundary to the sidewalk. We need to engage in true urban design!
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The city of the future. Few topics inspire the imagination more. Some see us living in giant skyscrapers with plants sprouting on the walls and a forest thriving in the middle with an amusement park. Others predict the end of individual mobility and see the use of autonomous shuttle fleets as the solution. The question here is how do we make our cities smart, because it is in the cities that the future will be decided.
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Circular economy – humanity is facing a building material problem. If we continue to consume building materials in this way, we will soon have serious difficulties. We have to be much more careful with our natural resources. Particularly in the construction sector, this requires good planning for new buildings, focusing on durability from the outset and planning for recycling at the end of the building’s service life.
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