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SUMMARY:School Lecture Series: BHSF / EPFL Architecture
DTSTART:20250527T183000
DTEND:20250527T200000
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DESCRIPTION:Axel Humpert\nBHSF\nGüterstrasse 8\, Berne\n\nThe transformat
 ion of the former warehouse of the Tobler Chocolate Factory is the geometr
 ical and conceptual centre of the urban design for the site of the former 
 waste incineration plant in the Holligen neighbourhood in Berne. The funda
 mental decision to preserve and convert this building represents an elemen
 tary approach to save resources while creating a new identity from the exi
 sting within the urban and architectural scale.\n\nAxel Humpert studied ar
 chitecture at TU Graz and ETH Zurich. He graduated in architecture in 2004
  and then worked for Meili\, Peter Architekten in Zurich and Munich. Toget
 her with Benedikt Boucsein and Tim Seidel\, he founded the architecture ma
 gazine ‘Camenzind’ in 2005 and his own office\, BHSF Architekten\, in 
 2007\; initially in Zurich and the Munich branch in 2022. From 2007 to 201
 0 he was a design assistant at ETH Zurich. Since 2015\, he has held the pr
 ofessorship for Architecture and Construction at the Institute of Architec
 ture at the FHNW Muttenz together with Tim Seidel. Both have headed the In
 stitute since 2022. He has been on the board of the Swiss Architecture Cou
 ncil since 2023 and a member of the City of Thun's specialist committee fo
 r building and exterior design since 2024.\n\nThis lecture is part of the 
 school lecture series\nHOUSING VOL.2 - Housing and Reuse\n\nReuse of exist
 ing buildings is increasingly becoming a good practice. Yet\, reuse is eas
 ier said than done. Within a capitalist society\, buildings are produced a
 s commodities and\, as such\, they are not meant to last. Moreover\, what 
 is at stake within reuse is not simply the reuse of buildings per se\, but
  the whole process of building production behind each architectural projec
 t.\n\nThis lecture series explores projects of reuse in which former offic
 es\, factories\, or houses are transformed or expanded as residential spac
 es. Each lecture will focus on one building in order to shed light not onl
 y on the advantages of reuse but also on its limits and challenges. The le
 cture series will be complemented by the launch of Professor Charlotte Mal
 terre-Barthes’s A "Moratorium on New Construction".
LOCATION:Auditoire SG https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%201138
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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