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Through collective drawing, writing, filmmaking, and space-making, they frame the daily acts of displaced queer bodies as conscious homemaking strategies, acting as catalyzers for a collective production of knowledge around communal living. In this endeavor, softness and queerness are political means to envision alternatives to normative concepts of home. Their first ongoing collaborative work, ‘a house of differences’, is a multi-channel installation documenting the temporary inhabitation of a vacant villa in Zurich and the transformation of its abandoned institutional rooms into domestic ones. This film documents both reflections on objects of home-making as well as different strategies encountered in conversation with queer communes and individuals displaced across China, Italy, and the diaspora. The research was presented at ETH Zurich, Princeton University, and the Penn LGBT Center. Links to events:Media + Modernity Princeton University (2025) UPenn LGBT Center (2025) AIA Center for Architecture (2025)Poster 1&nbsp; © soft resistance collective Poster 2 © M+M Princeton https://qianerzhu.com/unmasking-space Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:42:32 +0000 Qianer Zhu https://qianerzhu.com/unmasking-space <img width="2480" height="3508" width_o="2480" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47d8e320cd204887e99dafec5e6e1b02e60c0d5f870e171ec1904fe19e371f9e/240515_new-poster.jpg" data-mid="253551206" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47d8e320cd204887e99dafec5e6e1b02e60c0d5f870e171ec1904fe19e371f9e/240515_new-poster.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19cf1d8092f30972b205f946dd0d2fc24005dc1670b829d284e4bfb5b460d28b/24-04-23-16-24-52-1834.jpg" data-mid="253551207" border="0" data-scale="45" 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height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc5e36c8f4ca42c42744b2c73f930248ff401cc7aa7384153fa083a4ad24bf8a/IMG_6823.JPG" data-mid="253551205" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc5e36c8f4ca42c42744b2c73f930248ff401cc7aa7384153fa083a4ad24bf8a/IMG_6823.JPG" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef972652aaee75b72f41e01eeb9e9193f732f1a8ab33cb4c912db9db1b85b667/DSC01751.jpg" data-mid="253551204" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ef972652aaee75b72f41e01eeb9e9193f732f1a8ab33cb4c912db9db1b85b667/DSC01751.jpg" /> 2021&nbsp; &nbsp; student-led course&nbsp; &nbsp; ETH Zurich&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;co-founded with &nbsp; &nbsp; Shriya Chaudhry, Michael Hoi Ming Du, Nina Hsu, Giacomo Rossi, Yaelle (2023), Philip Kaiser (2022), and Martin Rausch (2022) Unmasking Space is a student initiative meant to foreground grassroot voices and critically question the current knowledge production in architectural education. It has resulted in the establishment of a student-led elective course at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. It aims at bringing attention to learning forms, voices, and methods that are currently under-acknowledged in the institution. Through multidirectional knowledge exchange and immersive activities, it experiments with other forms of learning, offering a critical lens on current pedagogies. The course has been developed following an open call and has built links of solidarity with several student initiatives across Europe, Africa and North America. The full syllabus and bibliography of the elective course are available at https://unmasking.space/. The initiative is supported and funded by the chair of prof. An Fonteyne and the Department of the Ongoing at ETH. website: unmasking.space Instagram @unmaskingspace Publication:&nbsp;Unmasking Space - A Handbook for Student Activism (2025)Exhibition:&nbsp; Ca’Buccari, Venice (2025) Photo 2,3 credit Bundesamt für Kultur, Florian Spring &amp; Nicolas Polli © 2023. https://qianerzhu.com/sekundos Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:42:34 +0000 Qianer Zhu https://qianerzhu.com/sekundos <img width="4000" height="4000" width_o="4000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae837665c09597cdc8dd07a9db6ad29886f7de4221118da118c74f45a9682ce8/20220308-DSC07717-2.jpg" data-mid="253551215" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae837665c09597cdc8dd07a9db6ad29886f7de4221118da118c74f45a9682ce8/20220308-DSC07717-2.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="4000" width_o="4000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e26eadfa485e2641891e2fd0b6551200116faddb03e08b199848cf14c60c1673/20220308-DSC07740.jpg" data-mid="253551217" border="0" data-scale="53" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e26eadfa485e2641891e2fd0b6551200116faddb03e08b199848cf14c60c1673/20220308-DSC07740.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="4000" width_o="4000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0500862315f062aad2f6bb7a0eebd8310e56485fc023bcb8b5f9a2942b4a413/20220308-DSC07731.jpg" data-mid="253551216" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0500862315f062aad2f6bb7a0eebd8310e56485fc023bcb8b5f9a2942b4a413/20220308-DSC07731.jpg" /> <img width="3853" height="4816" width_o="3853" height_o="4816" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb8d39cb98a60ed9dec8807a5a9c6c9a463a476eef8ba045259103944c0bb7e6/Parity-Group_835.jpg" data-mid="253551212" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb8d39cb98a60ed9dec8807a5a9c6c9a463a476eef8ba045259103944c0bb7e6/Parity-Group_835.jpg" /> <img width="3853" height="4816" width_o="3853" height_o="4816" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8f7d314b3a0f4844f03887b2dc721d700844c8b7919e0dcb1f4b12f81b6769b/Parity-Group_854.jpg" data-mid="253551214" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8f7d314b3a0f4844f03887b2dc721d700844c8b7919e0dcb1f4b12f81b6769b/Parity-Group_854.jpg" /> <img width="3853" height="4816" width_o="3853" height_o="4816" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2a286a8e9f4ca1878fe8385cb9874c9f8b0952814193fce5c68f06aa3ef9605/Parity-Group_851.jpg" data-mid="253551213" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2a286a8e9f4ca1878fe8385cb9874c9f8b0952814193fce5c68f06aa3ef9605/Parity-Group_851.jpg" /> <img width="3853" height="4816" width_o="3853" height_o="4816" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/525c6abb8d5e7f7920ef52dfadeaaec08892e86a537b4bd7c335c62d9872e1c9/Parity-Group_1122.jpg" data-mid="253551219" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/525c6abb8d5e7f7920ef52dfadeaaec08892e86a537b4bd7c335c62d9872e1c9/Parity-Group_1122.jpg" /> <img width="3853" height="4816" width_o="3853" height_o="4816" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c6bb3a9363dc05a68e432a0d537384b41060ee128113bc60322690ef54f8826/Parity-Group_1185.jpg" data-mid="253551220" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c6bb3a9363dc05a68e432a0d537384b41060ee128113bc60322690ef54f8826/Parity-Group_1185.jpg" /> <img width="3853" height="4816" width_o="3853" height_o="4816" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee4b3db5f62cd02dea74f236e11994a70751e703890b15895d1a796e6780954a/Parity-Group_1096.jpg" data-mid="253551218" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee4b3db5f62cd02dea74f236e11994a70751e703890b15895d1a796e6780954a/Parity-Group_1096.jpg" /> Sekundos - Morphologies of Identities&nbsp; &nbsp; 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; grassroots initiative&nbsp; &nbsp; ETH Zurich &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;co-founded with &nbsp; &nbsp; Aymane Filali, Carolina Contreras Alvarez, Hoi Ming Du, Mona Lecoultre, Stefano Martelli SEKUNDOS is a student initiative that aims to recognize background identities in public spaces and to upkeep differences in the institution in the form of a&nbsp;musical podcast and live events. We founded this initiative together as a group of 6 students with different upbringing backgrounds. Some of us are “Sekundos”, which means second generation of migrants, but we also use this term to refer to any “secondary” layer of one’s identities. The project started with several conversations among us on how our certain identities were hardly recognized in a public environment because of the barrier of language, religion, cultural background, and in general, normalization. We then discover the format of sounds as a perfect medium to “communicate” beyond language and to recognize differences through listening. We had opportunities to organize workshops such as “Musical Picnic – Listening to Identity Morphologies”(2022), “From Palestine to Switzerland: A Folk Dance Tale” (2024) in the Parity Talks at ETH Zurich, and “Sonic Walk” in the Unmasking Space student-led elective course in FS23. Through collective listening and dancing, we explored music presenting different layers of one’s identities, and experimented with the moment of “place-making” through music and sounds. Besides the events, we are mainly working on a podcast channel to discuss different topics on identity struggles with invited guests. In the episode “On Being Foreign: Position Oneself in Between”, I had a discussion with Bing about experiences, feelings, emotions, and reflections on being foreign, with topics such as the power of language, how to deal with foreign gaze and stereotypes, ideological differences, and how freedom is entitled to one’s identity. In the end, we reflect on how to position ourselves in-between different backgrounds and identities and how to find our own paths. In the episode&nbsp;“On Decolonial Methodologies: A Journey Home”, we started with Tina’s upbringing experience as a pan-African diaspora on language, accent, visa, passport, education, belonging, colonial histories, and its aftermaths. Through this journey of identity struggles and reflections, she realized how certain narratives and histories were told based on an imperial and colonial background, and therefore we need to question the knowledge production system in Western academia. As “architects” and spatial practitioners working towards a decolonial future, we need to admit that we do not know enough and learn from the local context with humiliation. We need to “step down” and give space to other voices and dismantle the “Master’s house.” We also need to actively practice epistemic disobedience and challenge the current academic values. At the end of the episode, we also talked about how music and placemaking can be tools and methods for healing and journey home. Enjoy listening! :)website: sekundos.live spotify: link instagram @wearesekundos Photo 4,5,6,7,8,9 credit Bundesamt für Kultur, Florian Spring &amp; Nicolas Polli&nbsp;© 2022 https://qianerzhu.com/making-home-in-dis-place-m-e-a-n-t Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:42:35 +0000 Qianer Zhu https://qianerzhu.com/making-home-in-dis-place-m-e-a-n-t For queer bodies that are displaced because of their resistance to normative expectations, how can architecture support a sense of respite and inhabitation? What does the making of home look like for them?&nbsp; How do they enact resistance and resilience through the process of homemaking? <img width="3307" height="2338" width_o="3307" height_o="2338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f291f07dd67bfbd129972af816229b315769e58423cef70052a758ff6c751bd/24HS_Rossi_Zhu_making_home_in_displacement_9.jpeg" data-mid="253551232" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f291f07dd67bfbd129972af816229b315769e58423cef70052a758ff6c751bd/24HS_Rossi_Zhu_making_home_in_displacement_9.jpeg" /> <img width="3307" height="2338" width_o="3307" height_o="2338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25107e2bc7ec01530e87eb2a8868865cbfb338823a1dd80c3cd6bc9142278859/24HS_Rossi_Zhu_making_home_in_displacement_10.jpeg" data-mid="253551233" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25107e2bc7ec01530e87eb2a8868865cbfb338823a1dd80c3cd6bc9142278859/24HS_Rossi_Zhu_making_home_in_displacement_10.jpeg" /> <img width="3307" 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An Fonteyne (ETH Zurich), prof. S.E. Eisterer (Princeton University), prof. Menna Agha (Carleton University)collaborated with &nbsp; &nbsp; Giacomo Rossi &nbsp; Through this thesis, we seek to investigate displacement as an intrinsic part of the queer experience and how homemaking for displaced queer bodies can be a conscious act of resistance and resilience. We understand “queerness” as not solely referring to sexuality or serving as a blanket term for LGBTQIA+ communities, but as a critique and rejection of social norms and unequal power structures, a political commitment to alternative imaginaries and possibilities. Building on Sara Ahmed’s work on queer phenomenology, displacement is not seen as a “one-off” or exceptional event but as a constant ongoing process (moving out of place) and condition (being out of place). For those queer bodies that are displaced because of their resistance to normative expectations, how can architecture support a sense of respite and inhabitation? What does the making of home look like for them? How do they enact resistance and resilience through the process of homemaking? Starting from our own personal stories and trajectories, we aim to build a theoretical reflection that stems from our Chinese and Italian backgrounds and de-centers Anglo-American queer theory. We expanded into home studies through methods of drawing and oral histories that allowed us to encounter the intangible layers of home space, thus incorporating emotions, memories, hopes, and the unspoken that are at the base of day-to-day practices of homemaking. From a broad series of home studies varying from historical and contemporary queer communes to individuals living in the diaspora, we outlined several “practices of resistance”: labor, opacity/visibility, messiness, elements of orientation, house of difference, and power of fiction. We appropriated a soon-to-be-sold ETH villa at Voltastrasse 18 as the testing ground for these strategies and transformed the institutional setting into a domestic one by queering the use of space and office furniture. Weaving together the dreams and imaginaries from our research with the experiences of hosting the queer space working group (QSWG) and others, we saw the homemaking at the villa as an ongoing collective living experiment. This first iteration of the “house of differences” was documented in various formats, including the fiction book “The queer beings and their friends” and a film produced in collaboration with filmmaker Filémon Brault-Archambeault. Instagram @house.of.differences Giacomo Rossi, Qianer Zhu,&nbsp;Filémon Brault-Archambeault © 2024 https://qianerzhu.com/insurgent-domesticity Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:42:39 +0000 Qianer Zhu https://qianerzhu.com/insurgent-domesticity Women’s everyday struggles, mostly quiet and unrecognized, are indeed political acts. <img width="1700" height="2200" width_o="1700" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0dafbfcd308b2b896a493c8b5700f1f9f0305f20dc7606594a911eb815165ee/231220-Booklet-34-001.jpeg" data-mid="253551290" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0dafbfcd308b2b896a493c8b5700f1f9f0305f20dc7606594a911eb815165ee/231220-Booklet-34-001.jpeg" /> <img width="3400" height="2200" width_o="3400" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7345b36c64769f72addec5500c90b50dc21df4e1b4d9bd1aa07d1e0c746b9e6/231220-Booklet-36-003.jpeg" data-mid="253551292" border="0" data-scale="68" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1f45e3a1c81c99ad0095769e47b269614613686fa26b643821195fc2d2a9c9e/231220-Booklet-64-031.jpeg" data-mid="253551320" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1f45e3a1c81c99ad0095769e47b269614613686fa26b643821195fc2d2a9c9e/231220-Booklet-64-031.jpeg" /> <img width="3400" height="2200" width_o="3400" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d1b147af3ab082ac7a4829e62f6fde8743a66721c91800932824a9106c22f456/231220-Booklet-65-032.jpeg" data-mid="253551321" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d1b147af3ab082ac7a4829e62f6fde8743a66721c91800932824a9106c22f456/231220-Booklet-65-032.jpeg" /> 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Cox’s Bazar&nbsp; &nbsp; research and design projectsupervisor &nbsp; &nbsp; Prof. Fuad Mallick&nbsp; &nbsp; Harvard GSD &nbsp; Rohingya women and girls are among the most affected victims of the genocide in Myanmar. The majority of them have experienced different forms of sexual and gender-based violence. This project reflects on the perspective of humanitarian agencies that treat women as passive aid recipients and reinforce women’s subordination in the long term. It aims to recognize women’s homemaking labour as “humanitarian expertise centred on domesticity in emergency”. Therefore, it proposes a decentralized, bottom-up “semi-domestic collective space” for women to join forces and practice their insurgent domesticities. Echoing the theme of the “Changing Room Exhibition”, it states that women’s everyday struggles, mostly quiet and unrecognized, are indeed political acts. Studio Publication:&nbsp;The Rohingya Camps; Permanence in Transition Qianer Zhu © 2023 https://qianerzhu.com/re-densify Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:42:43 +0000 Qianer Zhu https://qianerzhu.com/re-densify 1. how do we measure density?2. how do we densify without building more?3. how do we define when buildings become obsolete?4. how do we densify without loosing diversity?5. how can we celebrate differences within architecture?6. what will a future housing cooperative look like?7. how will we live together? <img width="3180" height="1301" width_o="3180" height_o="1301" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76a656e37a2159a907b3601489e97ad52730040701bf02844f47616543ced23b/longsection.jpg" data-mid="253551328" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76a656e37a2159a907b3601489e97ad52730040701bf02844f47616543ced23b/longsection.jpg" /> <img width="3600" height="2400" width_o="3600" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf6bf8928d67c670cebdc2f00e1da107869e5515e63c0ca46d25490157dd357a/20220603-ANT04978-ps.jpg" data-mid="253551324" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf6bf8928d67c670cebdc2f00e1da107869e5515e63c0ca46d25490157dd357a/20220603-ANT04978-ps.jpg" /> <img width="2199" height="3095" width_o="2199" height_o="3095" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a643a7b45f38ac23702dae4ac7b9c3f393059d9fd6a57f1fb694d7725d9d5c4/masterplan.jpg" data-mid="253551329" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a643a7b45f38ac23702dae4ac7b9c3f393059d9fd6a57f1fb694d7725d9d5c4/masterplan.jpg" /> 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; Schwamendingen&nbsp; &nbsp; design projectsupervisor&nbsp; &nbsp; Prof. Jan de Vylder&nbsp; &nbsp; ETH Zurichcollaborated with &nbsp; &nbsp; Anton Krebs &amp; Leonie Wagner We need better ideas for better futures, now more than ever. Recently, Schwamendingen has become the heated topic of many discussions revolving around the citys zoning strategy, which considers Schwamendingen as one of the main locations suited for densification. Schwamendingen, home to one of the garden cities planned according to Heinrich Steiner on the outskirts of Zurich, is still dominated by its indigenous building typologies of loose row houses and low building blocks scattered across the green lawns connecting them. Many buildings will be demolished and replaced by so-called “Ersatzneubauten”. The major part of these residential areas are owned by housing cooperatives. We wonder if the most commonly used strategy of densification – which is demolition and new construction – is the only way to reach density? How do we measure density? Is density the full utilization of the plot ratio? Is density the number of square meters per person, or is it the number of rooms? In the current masterplan, the new replacement building provides only 25 more flats (from 125 existing to 150) whilst reaching the full plot ratio, which means that we have constructed more space but only a little more people are housed. On our plot, the per capita square meter rose from 25.6 m2 in the existing to 40 m2 in the replacement building. Is it really denser than before?What is the role of housing cooperatives in this discourse? Cooperatives, which were established to provide cheap housing, have become complicit in a housing market that expands mainly through demolition and new construction, since the purchase of land has become too expensive or there simply is no more land available. These processes not only consume a vast number of resources, but also lead to higher rents and thereby the displacements of residents who cannot afford the rising rents. On our plot, the rents rose from 12.5 CHF per m2 to 24.3 CHF per m2. In this project, we tried to look for new ways of creating dense neighborhoods and living together. The project focuses on the replacement building by EMI architects and two still existing but in the future to be demolished housing blocks “Neuwiesen”, built in 1949 and owned by BGZ Genossenschaft. To explore the various characters and interpretations density can imply, we let the buildings play a number game. Through the “ping pong” number game, we transplant different measures of density from one building to the other, to test out and play with other possibilities of densification. To densify with building less, and imagine other possibilities of living together. PING PONG 1&nbsp; &nbsp;THE PARASITEFor the first serve, the same number of rooms in the ratio from the new building is implemented in the existing building (Neuwiesen). This means that the number of rooms in Neuwiesen had to be increased by the factor of 1.64, from 198 to 282 rooms. &nbsp;We took the existing kitchens and bathrooms out of the private flats and instead implemented a collective core that shoots horizontally through the buildings, attaching itself to the existing staircase. The kitchen with the tower creates a long corridor, introducing a spatial wideness into the existing building, with views that stretch 24 meters long. The former kitchen and bathrooms are used as new rooms, which still show traces of their former use. <img width="1653" height="2338" width_o="1653" height_o="2338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cfbbb062d7233965bf8f031a2855239cb880a5848f1d75297556d1f0c4c79eae/pingpong1.jpeg" data-mid="253551325" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cfbbb062d7233965bf8f031a2855239cb880a5848f1d75297556d1f0c4c79eae/pingpong1.jpeg" /> <img width="3307" height="2338" width_o="3307" height_o="2338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06e77b2a170f39ceff2a73b8e8e40cb31cca88b7da42a3e982cc62551668879e/axo1.jpeg" data-mid="253551337" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06e77b2a170f39ceff2a73b8e8e40cb31cca88b7da42a3e982cc62551668879e/axo1.jpeg" /> <img width="4135" height="2923" width_o="4135" height_o="2923" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd612982b092b7d9df70cc3aa213669f7ff5d59744e1bb37c2c9543f4a4acf7b/P1-01-ps.png" data-mid="253551340" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd612982b092b7d9df70cc3aa213669f7ff5d59744e1bb37c2c9543f4a4acf7b/P1-01-ps.png" /> <img width="4135" height="2923" width_o="4135" height_o="2923" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76b603bbb4aa6448a1835b7e3c024072b1950391e9dc7f16eead6cf7b8352c61/P1-02-ps.png" data-mid="253551341" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76b603bbb4aa6448a1835b7e3c024072b1950391e9dc7f16eead6cf7b8352c61/P1-02-ps.png" /> <img width="1600" height="2400" width_o="1600" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6a33a7e802712e6be984b3d698296438b99aee8a26731cef150c973c7f0db39/2022_FS_M3_Group4_Anton_Krebs_Leonie_Wagner_Qianer_Zhu_render1.jpeg" data-mid="253551331" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6a33a7e802712e6be984b3d698296438b99aee8a26731cef150c973c7f0db39/2022_FS_M3_Group4_Anton_Krebs_Leonie_Wagner_Qianer_Zhu_render1.jpeg" /> <img width="2338" height="3307" width_o="2338" height_o="3307" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9e42a0f2ed7e644e55f0757776c1abbd7e5136b420a7ce25c4da8868755d054/2022_FS_M2_Group4_Anton_Krebs_Leonie_Wagner_Qianer_Zhu_axo.jpeg" data-mid="253551336" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9e42a0f2ed7e644e55f0757776c1abbd7e5136b420a7ce25c4da8868755d054/2022_FS_M2_Group4_Anton_Krebs_Leonie_Wagner_Qianer_Zhu_axo.jpeg" /> <img width="1653" height="2338" width_o="1653" height_o="2338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/551d90c51bf6818d09336f02c481ab45153665f4d65d30148fb2c69d4afa6bdb/drawing102.jpeg" data-mid="253551339" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/551d90c51bf6818d09336f02c481ab45153665f4d65d30148fb2c69d4afa6bdb/drawing102.jpeg" /> <img width="3600" height="2400" width_o="3600" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75b4a4efd42c3ea57d19d53593f4ce65b347709f98978106cff96cc5dc5c975a/Model-1.jpg" data-mid="253551333" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75b4a4efd42c3ea57d19d53593f4ce65b347709f98978106cff96cc5dc5c975a/Model-1.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="2400" width_o="1600" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f58f8f7753679a2a4891ca071e34f9b0aaaf3b5de5b2ab42121abf8ddcd336f8/2022_FS_M3_Group4_Anton_Krebs_Leonie_Wagner_Qianer_Zhu_render2.jpeg" data-mid="253551332" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f58f8f7753679a2a4891ca071e34f9b0aaaf3b5de5b2ab42121abf8ddcd336f8/2022_FS_M3_Group4_Anton_Krebs_Leonie_Wagner_Qianer_Zhu_render2.jpeg" /> <img width="1653" height="2338" width_o="1653" height_o="2338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/929edbf8b3745e7abee3a5afae3d5531f078a98b71cdf0054c3769ee66f62de4/drawing101.jpeg" data-mid="253551338" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/929edbf8b3745e7abee3a5afae3d5531f078a98b71cdf0054c3769ee66f62de4/drawing101.jpeg" /> PING PONG 2&nbsp; &nbsp;FACE-TO-FACE KITCHENIn the second step, the square meter per person from the Neuwiesen plot is introduced to the new building. This means that we will densify the new building from 40.4 m2/person to 25.6 m2/person. In order to generate more rooms, we decided to exchange the private kitchens for a “face-to-face-kitchen”, which can be used by two apartments. The kitchen works as a sort of soft wall, in the middle of two living rooms, whereas the former kitchens are used as rooms. The idea is to maximize the number of possible uses of only one kitchen, whereby another way of living together is evolving. When you open the refrigerator door in the morning, you may find yourself looking at your neighbor - “Bonjour!” &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="1653" height="2338" width_o="1653" height_o="2338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/607e63bd5f17d7659faeabff7327f0e9396cd609efd25e58cd3eb1fc5495704b/pingpong2.jpeg" data-mid="253551326" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/607e63bd5f17d7659faeabff7327f0e9396cd609efd25e58cd3eb1fc5495704b/pingpong2.jpeg" /> <img width="1653" height="2338" width_o="1653" height_o="2338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4b561aa8cf21a7d8a7cc00d26c4f5581387e50152ee41e22ffee2b3efc93ece/2022_FS_M3_Group4_Anton_Krebs_Leonie_Wagner_Qianer_Zhu_image3.jpeg" data-mid="253551342" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4b561aa8cf21a7d8a7cc00d26c4f5581387e50152ee41e22ffee2b3efc93ece/2022_FS_M3_Group4_Anton_Krebs_Leonie_Wagner_Qianer_Zhu_image3.jpeg" /> <img width="3600" height="2400" width_o="3600" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a52bc2333959d0c50a9e4e4a87de78000984708a3c891cc7c3c9ede42f27ca17/Model-2.jpg" data-mid="253551345" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a52bc2333959d0c50a9e4e4a87de78000984708a3c891cc7c3c9ede42f27ca17/Model-2.jpg" /> <img width="2338" height="3307" width_o="2338" height_o="3307" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0bab4ab0dff3ce871cd0926ad749ab2948613941851eec22b82becfc56b66b4d/axo2.jpeg" data-mid="253551347" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0bab4ab0dff3ce871cd0926ad749ab2948613941851eec22b82becfc56b66b4d/axo2.jpeg" /> <img width="4135" height="2923" width_o="4135" height_o="2923" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a80b639e504a53ef61924c6715e4b10c750b0211789e47e49ef0dd9a04d84e46/P2.png" data-mid="253551346" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a80b639e504a53ef61924c6715e4b10c750b0211789e47e49ef0dd9a04d84e46/P2.png" /> <img width="1653" height="2338" width_o="1653" height_o="2338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db20fdb28a3d0d874f27a507c2195fd11a15d38cbcf62f697139f1163ba49416/kitchen-01.jpeg" data-mid="253551343" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db20fdb28a3d0d874f27a507c2195fd11a15d38cbcf62f697139f1163ba49416/kitchen-01.jpeg" /> <img width="2338" height="1653" width_o="2338" height_o="1653" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0cd284371dce3942272104c33c2be80a3fb633b62af5c345dbeb2fe709c6cbac/kitchen-02.jpeg" data-mid="253551344" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0cd284371dce3942272104c33c2be80a3fb633b62af5c345dbeb2fe709c6cbac/kitchen-02.jpeg" /> PING PONG 3&nbsp; &nbsp;EXTENSIONIn the last phase, the utilization number of the new building plot is transferred to the existing plot. This means that the utilization number is increased from 0.75 to 1.5. We decided to build 6 floors on top of the existing, and to only extend the building facing the Einhausung in order to change as little as possible and to leave space for further densification measures. The extension rests on an independent structure. The floor that connects directly to the existing one is left open, unfolding a roof terrace on the level of the Einhausung. For the upper floors, we decided to work with a collective core again, this time stretching vertically through the building. The collective cores provide bathrooms, kitchens, and resting areas as well as staircases that lead to the floor above, where all the private rooms are placed. <img width="1653" height="2338" width_o="1653" height_o="2338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a019b50dc423c51949b4dfcd5828c31f54a266ae7164a98dde304df3c9ff3b9/pingpong3.jpeg" data-mid="253551327" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a019b50dc423c51949b4dfcd5828c31f54a266ae7164a98dde304df3c9ff3b9/pingpong3.jpeg" /> <img width="2338" height="1653" width_o="2338" height_o="1653" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d540cc29d0d6bd872a12ab3d2efd186578f3baf091cb70d792197a640d85c962/drawing302.jpeg" data-mid="253551354" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d540cc29d0d6bd872a12ab3d2efd186578f3baf091cb70d792197a640d85c962/drawing302.jpeg" /> <img width="2338" height="3307" width_o="2338" height_o="3307" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6cdfcfd9ab6552bb5f8d84556855637d03a084b3d55689168d95f4891cc9c264/axo3.jpeg" data-mid="253551352" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6cdfcfd9ab6552bb5f8d84556855637d03a084b3d55689168d95f4891cc9c264/axo3.jpeg" /> <img width="4135" height="2923" width_o="4135" height_o="2923" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dad547ea0d09b363be9e7910501488740424df7101ced1556b176f3e00622559/P3-01-ps.png" data-mid="253551350" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dad547ea0d09b363be9e7910501488740424df7101ced1556b176f3e00622559/P3-01-ps.png" /> <img width="4135" height="2923" width_o="4135" height_o="2923" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30fc95bbbef4c3c3a13506f2bc0daa79b35773578373253c80ec1cd982c9b19d/P3-02-ps.png" data-mid="253551351" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30fc95bbbef4c3c3a13506f2bc0daa79b35773578373253c80ec1cd982c9b19d/P3-02-ps.png" /> <img width="1653" height="2338" width_o="1653" height_o="2338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07e0d2a3936f4e318d9d9a5866fe11df9a8d2c866d96e03607a398fb71737b7b/drawing301.jpeg" data-mid="253551353" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/07e0d2a3936f4e318d9d9a5866fe11df9a8d2c866d96e03607a398fb71737b7b/drawing301.jpeg" /> <img width="3600" height="2400" width_o="3600" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15b7d45c8a1cd35fd230f773eb2cad90d67bb588871cc4d221b2170c673303bf/Model-3.jpg" data-mid="253551349" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15b7d45c8a1cd35fd230f773eb2cad90d67bb588871cc4d221b2170c673303bf/Model-3.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="1600" width_o="2400" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/becb878b38bf84434d905447fdc94c9d82332a46285a971b2b0e59745a2ed6dc/2022_FS_M3_Group4_Anton_Krebs_Leonie_Wagner_Qianer_Zhu_render3.jpg" data-mid="253551348" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/becb878b38bf84434d905447fdc94c9d82332a46285a971b2b0e59745a2ed6dc/2022_FS_M3_Group4_Anton_Krebs_Leonie_Wagner_Qianer_Zhu_render3.jpg" /> Anton Krebs, Leonie Wagner, Qianer Zhu&nbsp;© 2022 https://qianerzhu.com/future-after-future Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:42:46 +0000 Qianer Zhu https://qianerzhu.com/future-after-future In 2031, a disastrous flood hit the province of Almeria in southern Spain. The crisis created an opportunity to bring the fragmented local relationships together. A new model is invented through common land ownership, cooperative farming, and cohabitation. <img width="2183" height="1183" width_o="2183" height_o="1183" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/150694d4dad99e6be67f0240509033bda7f1bf3842b8026a114f494a71f1af9b/211217_facade-ps.jpg" data-mid="253551355" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/150694d4dad99e6be67f0240509033bda7f1bf3842b8026a114f494a71f1af9b/211217_facade-ps.jpg" /> <img width="2880" height="1610" width_o="2880" height_o="1610" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/271ffac7237776c7092c5414639d8db14331c9df3865b95ade0e6d0faaffb6b1/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-7.48.34-PM.png" data-mid="253551366" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/271ffac7237776c7092c5414639d8db14331c9df3865b95ade0e6d0faaffb6b1/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-7.48.34-PM.png" /> <img width="2183" height="1183" width_o="2183" height_o="1183" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e5c459c6a05349e0e73d66cb00f0541a9f1c172fb63a9920136087d2d876e5c/211218_groundfloor-1-ps.jpg" data-mid="253551359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e5c459c6a05349e0e73d66cb00f0541a9f1c172fb63a9920136087d2d876e5c/211218_groundfloor-1-ps.jpg" /> <img width="2873" height="1616" width_o="2873" height_o="1616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f57ec10b0da3e22e17f7ae63da6227331404668f7045affc4818f026ad5470c/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-7.48.38-PM.png" data-mid="253551367" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f57ec10b0da3e22e17f7ae63da6227331404668f7045affc4818f026ad5470c/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-7.48.38-PM.png" /> <img width="2183" height="1183" width_o="2183" height_o="1183" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57f9c2e85e9251f083b948b5b8716e4150851eed53108c463169529980c8c0bd/211218_sofa-PS.jpg" data-mid="253551365" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57f9c2e85e9251f083b948b5b8716e4150851eed53108c463169529980c8c0bd/211218_sofa-PS.jpg" /> <img width="2183" height="1183" width_o="2183" height_o="1183" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75f777135fcd5e0e8e86d33be37c467b58a5e8dddfa9be9643c428518b5ae6f0/211218_columns-PS.jpg" data-mid="253551357" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75f777135fcd5e0e8e86d33be37c467b58a5e8dddfa9be9643c428518b5ae6f0/211218_columns-PS.jpg" /> <img width="2183" height="1183" width_o="2183" height_o="1183" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bce2f7f1ae30e0d16f41ee526f9fb2e626da2664faf5dbf9d39e3e369d03a90e/211218_kitchen-ps.jpg" data-mid="253551361" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bce2f7f1ae30e0d16f41ee526f9fb2e626da2664faf5dbf9d39e3e369d03a90e/211218_kitchen-ps.jpg" /> <img width="2880" height="1617" width_o="2880" height_o="1617" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa127d7143dc5a84d8bebc46321b60a0862495f66ecd16c6017d19be1ef04056/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-7.51.31-PM.png" data-mid="253551368" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa127d7143dc5a84d8bebc46321b60a0862495f66ecd16c6017d19be1ef04056/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-7.51.31-PM.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1617" width_o="2880" height_o="1617" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be00329bb2f8404f057dd7b47042d85506c9e139af74a571aab4f2fb16e431d3/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-7.56.40-PM.png" data-mid="253551369" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be00329bb2f8404f057dd7b47042d85506c9e139af74a571aab4f2fb16e431d3/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-7.56.40-PM.png" /> <img width="2183" height="1183" width_o="2183" height_o="1183" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2089d2f0d5506560b10c01db621fa00ded172be5cbffb5d86333280baf487c3/211218_rooftop-1.jpg" data-mid="253551363" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2089d2f0d5506560b10c01db621fa00ded172be5cbffb5d86333280baf487c3/211218_rooftop-1.jpg" /> <img width="2880" height="1614" width_o="2880" height_o="1614" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a9ce06b9bca34b079b80423470a0df3db350a24adb5945332f224bc13441aa7/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-7.57.13-PM.png" data-mid="253551370" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a9ce06b9bca34b079b80423470a0df3db350a24adb5945332f224bc13441aa7/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-7.57.13-PM.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1615" width_o="2880" height_o="1615" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bed5568aa1e5cd25725f280214473ee55e09fe78307f2b071677cb33413af29e/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-7.57.32-PM.png" data-mid="253551371" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bed5568aa1e5cd25725f280214473ee55e09fe78307f2b071677cb33413af29e/Screen-Shot-2022-06-03-at-7.57.32-PM.png" /> 2021&nbsp; &nbsp; Almería&nbsp; &nbsp; design project and short film supervisor&nbsp; &nbsp; Prof. Arno Brandlhuber&nbsp; &nbsp; ETH Zurichcollaborated with &nbsp; &nbsp; Giacomo Rossi The southern-most province of Almería is a place where the global systems of food production and migration collide and take built form. Extracted resources, such as water, sand, and soil; cheap labor from Eastern Europe and Africa; and formal and informal settlements. All of this defines an area known as “plastic sea”, the largest greenhouse in the world: 32.000 hectares of plastic-covered terrain. In 2031, a very strong Mediterranean Hurricane hit Almeria with a week of rain and uncontrolled flooding. Hundreds of farmers and workers lost their jobs, and 12,000 hectares of greenhouses at the coast were washed out. Willi, a farmer from Zurich, was on a golfing holiday and regarded this crisis as an opportunity. He immediately gathered together the farmers with their insurance compensation and workers with some savings to build up a new cooperative for seaweed farming, combined with housing for homeless farmers and workers, a tourist industry of hotels and restaurants. In 2036, farmers, workers, and tourists are now under a collaborative relationship; connections among previously isolated groups are established, and political representation is strengthened. Everyone has equal voting rights in the management of the now shared resources, both on land and at sea. Migrant workers who were in a precarious state before now have a 3-year contract and legal representation. They work with tourists in the summer season and in the greenhouses in winter, so their role in the economic system is no longer hidden. Farmers now get income from different sources, and it is a more stable model for them. Offshore wind farming and spaces for remote workers from northern Europe allow the income to be diversified and the community to become more resilient when facing global factors such as climate change and competition from Morocco. Seasonal tourists, who were previously completely isolated from the harsh reality of Almeria, now have direct access to the local community, and the mechanisms of the food industry are now more transparent to customers. They can visit the off-shore farms by boat, harvest seaweed and oyster as an experience, and later have them as fresh food. In 2036, living together has reshaped the political landscape of Almeria. A cohabitation is established not only among different social groups, but also with the land and the sea. People finally realized that they must replace competition with collaboration and manage the resources in a sustainable way. This short film was developed within the framework of the Studio of Arno Brandlhuber at ETH Zurich, between October and December 2021. It was informed by conversations with local union activists, workers, migrants, researchers, and farmers that happened on site in Almería. It won the 3rd prize in the Open Political Spaces competition organized by Space Coordinator and the Seoul Metropolitan City Government, and was screened in Seoul in December 2022. Giacomo Rossi, Qianer Zhu © 2021 https://qianerzhu.com/becoming-pluriversity Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:42:48 +0000 Qianer Zhu https://qianerzhu.com/becoming-pluriversity “As Inga people, from preschool to our doctorates, we learn and reproduce knowledge that is not ours. It is the imposed way of the scientifically proven that has obscured all other routes of access to knowledge, including those of the indigenous people and other epistemologies of the south. Today, it is important that the Western knowledge and our knowledge have a space for dialogue.” ——Hernando Chindoy Chindoy, leader of the Inga people of Colombia <img width="4133" height="2923" width_o="4133" height_o="2923" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ada56aba8fe47bb8a7c4f320c460877a59a834f06ff6667ae5a8b0da973372f2/rainforest-site.png" data-mid="253551414" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ada56aba8fe47bb8a7c4f320c460877a59a834f06ff6667ae5a8b0da973372f2/rainforest-site.png" /> <img width="4133" height="2923" width_o="4133" height_o="2923" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cf892ed0743569a35b1489e0bb03f2505e6935538b2d3b578ebe104da3d8934/village-site-small.png" data-mid="253551416" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4cf892ed0743569a35b1489e0bb03f2505e6935538b2d3b578ebe104da3d8934/village-site-small.png" /> 2019-2022&nbsp; &nbsp; Putumayo&nbsp; &nbsp; design project, photography, academic writing, exhibition supervisor&nbsp; &nbsp; Prof. Anne Lacaton&nbsp; &nbsp; ETH Zurichcollaborated with &nbsp; &nbsp; Shen He, Timmy Huang, Tu Lan 01&nbsp; &nbsp;Context The indigenous community Inga Aponte inhabits a large area across southern Colombia around the region of Putumayo. From the Andes to the Amazonian lowlands, their territories are biologically rich and strategically important as the source of major Amazonian rivers. Over the past 300 years, the Inga community has struggled for survival in the presence of the guerrillas, armed drug traffickers, and paramilitary, who between 1986 and 2004 infested the indigenous communities, violated their territorial rights, degraded the local ecosystems, and hampered any development of the rural population. Education has been a major tool for integrating the indigenous communities into the colonial and Christian projects. In the early 20th century, with the new road connecting the Andean centers with Mocoa, missionary schools appeared in these Amazonian provinces. In 2003, the Inga community initiated a remarkable process of self-determination and rediscovery of their ancestral way of life and their vital relation to the natural environment. At the heart of this liberation effort lies Aponte, an Inga Resguardo (reserved indigenous territory) that had been transformed into an area of poppy plantation and heroin production during the civil war. Under the leadership of young governor Hernando Chindoy Chindoy, the community managed to turn the village into an official reservation, rid themselves of these groups, and turn the surrounding fields into coffee plantations. Through the use of organic fertilizer and reforestation, they managed to recuperate 2500 ha of affected land, which has since recovered soil, water, and biodiversity (Devenir Universidad, 2022). The process successfully initiated self-determination and laid a solid foundation for the community to recover their ancestral way of life and knowledge. Now, they strive for a university that will safeguard their knowledge, their natural environment and culture,&nbsp;and educate a new generation of indigenous youth to be prepared for a professional future in their territories and beyond. social, political, economical The university serves as a political tool for the Inga community to reclaim and strengthen their lost territory, protect their mother nature, and preserve the indigenous existence. It‘s about to survive, to transmit, to perpetuate. The university also serves as an economic tool to support the community with its agricultural learning activities. The aim is to help strengthen the economic autonomy of the Inga community and put an end to poverty, drug trafficking, and illegal mining. educational The university serves as a place to educate the community with both indigenous and non-indigenous knowledge. The aim is to weave bridges between indigenous learning systems and Western science. The university includes a process of archiving indigenous knowledge and building a network of resources, which happens at both the built and unbuilt levels. The education differs from the conventional. It stresses communal work, exchange of knowledge, and learning by doing. ethnic and cultural The university encourages communication across different groups in terms of ethnicity, generation, nationality, scale, gender, discipline, etc. As a sustainable agriculture system, chagra produces not only food and medicine but also builds space where social, spiritual, and educational events happen. architecture and planning The architecture of the university is expected to represent their culture in terms of material, space, and typology. Constructions should be flexible to use and can be adapted to other uses if necessary. The construction will mainly be done in the form of Mingas. The university should be spread out in the whole territory, with bio-corridors in between as a path to knowledge and a path with nature. 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During the 20th to 25th of October 2019, the 17 students of the studio in Zurich, together with students from the Inga community and Bogotá, made a trip to the heart of the Inga territories, guided by Hernando Chindoy and with the help of Ursula Biemann.As an analogue photographer, I took two analogue cameras with me during the trip and made a photobook of the journey. <img width="4131" height="2923" width_o="4131" height_o="2923" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3acdcc6c3a688f96ad7aa960181f640ff3b0f95a2025e26aff320485fd2d6de6/200429-analysis-map.png" data-mid="253551404" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3acdcc6c3a688f96ad7aa960181f640ff3b0f95a2025e26aff320485fd2d6de6/200429-analysis-map.png" /> <img width="3977" height="2813" width_o="3977" height_o="2813" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9e95eb861c9a4eae1cd740e7d816dfe6ebcb26c3d0763d7c769b274011813ac/SH_learning-program_overlay-test_serif.jpeg" data-mid="253551417" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9e95eb861c9a4eae1cd740e7d816dfe6ebcb26c3d0763d7c769b274011813ac/SH_learning-program_overlay-test_serif.jpeg" /> <img width="4677" height="1653" width_o="4677" height_o="1653" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b21d879a64edf145af143192181de731da24661562b6414a9b642cad641cd9b/strategy.jpeg" data-mid="253551418" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b21d879a64edf145af143192181de731da24661562b6414a9b642cad641cd9b/strategy.jpeg" /> <img width="5846" height="2066" width_o="5846" height_o="2066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5f363da3fc0187c2f101caa9b1c1d8bec8069fdf8acc4fd2621a8f05695c2df/constructions.png" data-mid="253551410" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5f363da3fc0187c2f101caa9b1c1d8bec8069fdf8acc4fd2621a8f05695c2df/constructions.png" /> <img width="4133" height="2923" width_o="4133" height_o="2923" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3d6716f9f279cab162dcdffa6a2c5f3bdd36d9dd18612f10637c47f7017ba94/cocept_phasing_scale_black.png" data-mid="253551408" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3d6716f9f279cab162dcdffa6a2c5f3bdd36d9dd18612f10637c47f7017ba94/cocept_phasing_scale_black.png" /> <img width="4133" height="2923" width_o="4133" height_o="2923" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cf892ed0743569a35b1489e0bb03f2505e6935538b2d3b578ebe104da3d8934/village-site-small.png" data-mid="253551416" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4cf892ed0743569a35b1489e0bb03f2505e6935538b2d3b578ebe104da3d8934/village-site-small.png" /> <img width="2068" height="1478" width_o="2068" height_o="1478" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00b7f8ad9d924dd4e1a16b3d26af107c14caaf92490441c54afb2f77bad0cdd4/200521-mensa.jpg" data-mid="253551405" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00b7f8ad9d924dd4e1a16b3d26af107c14caaf92490441c54afb2f77bad0cdd4/200521-mensa.jpg" /> <img width="2053" height="1167" width_o="2053" height_o="1167" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb7023f0996b326f9021b15839e9fc5610a5c6ff374d9ae7b16f7ce6b847a52b/graduation.jpg" data-mid="253551413" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb7023f0996b326f9021b15839e9fc5610a5c6ff374d9ae7b16f7ce6b847a52b/graduation.jpg" /> <img width="4133" height="2923" width_o="4133" height_o="2923" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ada56aba8fe47bb8a7c4f320c460877a59a834f06ff6667ae5a8b0da973372f2/rainforest-site.png" data-mid="253551414" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ada56aba8fe47bb8a7c4f320c460877a59a834f06ff6667ae5a8b0da973372f2/rainforest-site.png" /> <img width="2500" height="1632" width_o="2500" height_o="1632" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25e36d3895de3b468fae85dcab2634ce95142019f047dd7e6793229e74a9eb29/after.jpg" data-mid="253551406" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25e36d3895de3b468fae85dcab2634ce95142019f047dd7e6793229e74a9eb29/after.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1634" width_o="2500" height_o="1634" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b796d5dad3315e628196db344c42154b3087656d0d04eeddfc4544e36c90542/dormitory.jpg" data-mid="253551411" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b796d5dad3315e628196db344c42154b3087656d0d04eeddfc4544e36c90542/dormitory.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 03&nbsp; &nbsp;Project sites University performs in two sites: village and rainforest. Indigenous knowledge is usually practiced in situ and has a close relation with the location. Village and rainforest are the places where knowledge is expressed, practiced, and taught. Thus, students will exchange between two sites and make full use of opportunities to learn from both sites. To make the university is to make a place for knowledge. phases The university performs in phases. This not only applies to the semester schedule but also to the construction of the university and the establishment of the institution. All the events of the university intertwine with the recurring climate and the traditional agricultural calendar. The university already exists. It is already anchored in the territory and the knowledge among the Inga people. It could start now with the potential use of the existing. scales The university is designed in three scales. Flexibility is key to the project, and it performs in three scales: In the territory scale – a wide range of site choices in relation to in situ knowledge; In site scale – adaptive ways to organize sites according to different existing conditions; In construction scale – varied ways of using and changing the construction. Based on the 3-year phasing and 3-year learning program, we proposed 3 phases of construction. Each phase will hold 15 students on each site, and dormitories will be built for the growing population. Chagra will also be built on each phase to provide enough food and reach a certain degree of self-sustainability. The growing construction of the university is aligned with the education program, and reforestation can be gradually achieved through the planting of permaculture. <img width="5929" height="3953" width_o="5929" height_o="3953" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d44ee3209e8c90b446e9f6b04363ca696995a1f11cc10df85697356781005089/20210603-DSC07959.jpg" data-mid="253551419" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d44ee3209e8c90b446e9f6b04363ca696995a1f11cc10df85697356781005089/20210603-DSC07959.jpg" /> <img width="5929" height="3953" width_o="5929" height_o="3953" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/319713d428bda99c918857a4e46bb5e90f2ad7fcbf9e6ba565784636aad5dda3/20210603-DSC07960.jpg" data-mid="253551420" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/319713d428bda99c918857a4e46bb5e90f2ad7fcbf9e6ba565784636aad5dda3/20210603-DSC07960.jpg" /> <img width="5929" height="3953" width_o="5929" height_o="3953" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bcae3fef34443573e22496ccbd055e6c3c70979c7a05ad46d79a3c2677b4d4e0/20210603-DSC07963.jpg" data-mid="253551421" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bcae3fef34443573e22496ccbd055e6c3c70979c7a05ad46d79a3c2677b4d4e0/20210603-DSC07963.jpg" /> <img width="5929" height="3953" width_o="5929" height_o="3953" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e344b419c47497fe14e9b513faf9f64c05bb9f79eb00148940cff5f594cbea8/20210603-DSC07964.jpg" data-mid="253551422" border="0" data-scale="71" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e344b419c47497fe14e9b513faf9f64c05bb9f79eb00148940cff5f594cbea8/20210603-DSC07964.jpg" /> <img width="5929" height="3953" width_o="5929" height_o="3953" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2c35d5ce1da6cba18af6fc607994f108987380651be220f98c1998c2dc27b40/20210603-DSC07966.jpg" data-mid="253551423" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b2c35d5ce1da6cba18af6fc607994f108987380651be220f98c1998c2dc27b40/20210603-DSC07966.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 04&nbsp; &nbsp;Publication I was part of the editorial team for the studio publication that documents all the design projects and production as the final presentation for the Inga community. The book has both English and Spanish versions. (Link to the book) <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e98535617b929abf40d0ddeff5785316f8d15db7cf92686b569f498b2a46f24d/IMG_8699.JPG" data-mid="253551427" border="0" data-scale="55" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e98535617b929abf40d0ddeff5785316f8d15db7cf92686b569f498b2a46f24d/IMG_8699.JPG" /> <img width="1082" height="1082" width_o="1082" height_o="1082" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c9ae9be8c42ee9809dffdc2bbb09088303171d6360bfbc160b643063f8ffaff/IMG_8697.JPG" data-mid="253551425" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3c9ae9be8c42ee9809dffdc2bbb09088303171d6360bfbc160b643063f8ffaff/IMG_8697.JPG" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 05&nbsp; &nbsp;ExhibitionI participated in the exhibition opening discussion as one of the student representatives in the Venice Biennale 2021 at the French Pavilion, curated by Christophe Hutin. During the discussion, I brought up the project under a postcolonial perspective, which led to my reflections and writing later: <img width="7015" height="9933" width_o="7015" height_o="9933" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/904d3d3d092cc738004f57f8521374247e42613b1ae23ea3cb0ca3005768a492/220214_poster-final.jpg" data-mid="253551428" border="0" data-scale="36" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/904d3d3d092cc738004f57f8521374247e42613b1ae23ea3cb0ca3005768a492/220214_poster-final.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 06&nbsp; &nbsp;WritingWhat is the relation between place and identity? How could we reinforce the Inga identities with placemaking? What is the role of architects in the postcolonial context? In the studio, we were working mainly on what we know in the architecture profession without considering too much of the&nbsp;layer of cultural identities, since we know very clearly that we cannot know better than the Inga on this part. However, in this essay, I argued that questioning and reflecting on our role with a postcolonial context in mind should not prevent us from thinking about how to take action to face the challenges of reinforcing indigenous identities. We could do more based on what we have done. I introduced place-making as a design method under this context to reinforce the indigenous identities. In order to achieve a deep understanding of the cultural layers, we need to see architectural design as a process that is constantly developing, learning, and adapting. The key to legitimization lies in the design process and collaboration. Postcolonial perspectives espouse a transformative agenda for architecture that enables and empowers the marginalized in the processes of material production, practices of their inhabitation, and structures of representation. Therein lies our future – and our hope – of a more just and equitable world that demands new ways of knowledge production in architecture. 07&nbsp; &nbsp;To be continuedThe project is still actively going on in ETH with many supports. I participated in a seminar week in March 2022, organized by Prof. An Fonteyne, where a group of Inga people was invited to Switzerland, and together we walked, danced, gathered in the forest, and discussed how we want to continue the project. We both agree that being and working together are the key to future collaboration, and a new project format needs to be planned. Shen He, Timmy Huang, Tu Lan,&nbsp;Qianer Zhu, Studio Lacaton © 2020 https://qianerzhu.com/amphitheater-of-pula Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:42:54 +0000 Qianer Zhu https://qianerzhu.com/amphitheater-of-pula The Amphitheatre of Pula has become a fenced-off heritage for tourists. We would like to give the amphitheatre back to the city —— reinhabite it, and tranform it into an active living part of the contemporary city life. <img width="19866" height="7015" width_o="19866" height_o="7015" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af7bd3b9b0befe28ef7bfcb3bd3a6c114f7b38337be8eb76440da013c1a83739/longsection1682-594.png" data-mid="253551451" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af7bd3b9b0befe28ef7bfcb3bd3a6c114f7b38337be8eb76440da013c1a83739/longsection1682-594.png" /> <img width="7015" height="4960" width_o="7015" height_o="4960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ccb1b232db70ab6fb6e5b4b0fe835fe7dc6ab4b10ecea511afff54ddc89555be/Atlas-Pula_small-dragged-2.png" data-mid="253551445" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ccb1b232db70ab6fb6e5b4b0fe835fe7dc6ab4b10ecea511afff54ddc89555be/Atlas-Pula_small-dragged-2.png" /> <img width="7015" height="4960" width_o="7015" height_o="4960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88822360a133f1d951c65bb619b15aa84f79c7ab7f92923e113556755fb146d8/Atlas-Pula_small-dragged-3.png" data-mid="253551446" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88822360a133f1d951c65bb619b15aa84f79c7ab7f92923e113556755fb146d8/Atlas-Pula_small-dragged-3.png" /> <img width="3024" height="3024" width_o="3024" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ef3472800ad13e8c059b17ad26362f88986f8791d10f4da98655ead950175d8/IMG_9676.jpg" data-mid="253551450" border="0" data-scale="43" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ef3472800ad13e8c059b17ad26362f88986f8791d10f4da98655ead950175d8/IMG_9676.jpg" /> <img width="7015" height="7015" width_o="7015" height_o="7015" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7dc89ee7945c3010faa17b76546971c0ea60103874e4c06115779e5a5abc86ea/axonew.png" data-mid="253551447" border="0" data-scale="45" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7dc89ee7945c3010faa17b76546971c0ea60103874e4c06115779e5a5abc86ea/axonew.png" /> Inhabiting the Amphitheater of Pula&nbsp; &nbsp; 2019&nbsp; &nbsp;design project supervisor&nbsp; &nbsp; Prof. Tom Emerson&nbsp; &nbsp; ETH Zurichcollaborated with &nbsp; &nbsp; Airas Sánchez Keller The history of the city of Pula, a city located in Croatia, dates back to Roman times. Nowadays, the ancient Amphitheatre, a leftover from those long-forgotten times, represents the main attraction for tourists. Tourism, after the Croatian city lost its industrial strength and struggled to maintain economic stability, is the main financial crutch for the city. And so, the ancient structure has become a fenced-off site that tourists can pay to enter. This is a way of dealing with a heritage that can be seen with many world heritage sites like this one. In our opinion, the Amphitheatre of Pula is now a dead monument with little connection to civic life. With our proposal, we would like to give the amphitheatre back to the city: reinhabiting it and converting it into an active part of the civic fabric. Thus, the program of HOUSING is introduced in order to reuse the space in a contemporary way, and give the ancient ruin an active role in the lives of the people of Pula.&nbsp; <img width="9933" height="14043" width_o="9933" height_o="14043" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d115c100257d8e85800aa703a8027500bf59158d80d33c08f7093c093fa149b/1.png" data-mid="253551440" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0d115c100257d8e85800aa703a8027500bf59158d80d33c08f7093c093fa149b/1.png" /> <img width="9933" height="14043" width_o="9933" height_o="14043" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e084769064e3780951e6ca17d7b2f3d6d607d2d5c7897d15f3f438e880e0834/2.png" data-mid="253551441" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e084769064e3780951e6ca17d7b2f3d6d607d2d5c7897d15f3f438e880e0834/2.png" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; PLAN STUDY To inhabit the enclosed space in the Amphitheatre, we first made a study of the geometry of the oval plan - a construction which was invented by the Romans - and created a series of public spaces. Daily civic infrastructure, such as bike parking and mailboxes are organized on the ground floor, with shops, cafes, restaurants, and ateliers facing the middle “forum”. Through a promenade of stairs, the forum is connected to the upper floors, where 4m wide elevated “streets in the sky” run around the oval structure. They can be appropriated by the inhabitants, and used by the visitors as well for watching shows inside the forum or going to the roof garden. Thus, the building creates a more direct connection between inhabitants and visitors. <img width="4960" height="7015" width_o="4960" height_o="7015" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/050276d6629c37df7ddbe3e13c100b787d614dd93b72ca0e3fe6b11420fa7c38/A2-s2.png" data-mid="253551442" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/050276d6629c37df7ddbe3e13c100b787d614dd93b72ca0e3fe6b11420fa7c38/A2-s2.png" /> <img width="3307" height="4677" width_o="3307" height_o="4677" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73de61f6380ecbc3a2fd62f66324a36bcbf96b0fe2336f9ab736909e6c19a6d6/doubleheightroom-A2.jpeg" data-mid="253551449" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73de61f6380ecbc3a2fd62f66324a36bcbf96b0fe2336f9ab736909e6c19a6d6/doubleheightroom-A2.jpeg" /> <img width="4960" height="7015" width_o="4960" height_o="7015" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e46326c873f98e358632997e255a6c9ab6091fab63ce9ea83e3e00cfb4cfc02/A2-s3.png" data-mid="253551443" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e46326c873f98e358632997e255a6c9ab6091fab63ce9ea83e3e00cfb4cfc02/A2-s3.png" /> <img width="4677" height="3307" width_o="4677" height_o="3307" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6649194f22023ca7ec5adf626995bec5681b36222111306626a322f753b99265/photoroom-A2.jpeg" data-mid="253551452" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6649194f22023ca7ec5adf626995bec5681b36222111306626a322f753b99265/photoroom-A2.jpeg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; SECTION STUDY To inhabit the old wall, we developed the housing units starting from the section, in order to find a human scale on the monumental verticality of the wall. Through the clash of the different scales, we were able to find different qualities in space going up the wall, each of them relating to the ancient ruin in a different way. A system of housing units is developed where two units are always intertwined, providing three different sections: - a single-height section with the private sleeping chambers; - a double-height section for the living room; - a section providing light with a vertical courtyard. <img width="4960" height="7015" width_o="4960" height_o="7015" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/132b8a035be7a4ae6efa726d7421fac11d740f68fec715d920d8438152173d4f/A2unit.png" data-mid="253551444" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/132b8a035be7a4ae6efa726d7421fac11d740f68fec715d920d8438152173d4f/A2unit.png" /> <img width="4960" height="14031" width_o="4960" height_o="14031" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c72e31dc7a3631e0edc10b89ddf263061f5da44c9c51b82475f91cd2dfc821c1/construction420-1188.png" data-mid="253551448" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c72e31dc7a3631e0edc10b89ddf263061f5da44c9c51b82475f91cd2dfc821c1/construction420-1188.png" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ONE AND A HALF ARCHES Each apartment opens up to one and a half arches of the wall. One full-height arch frames the view from the double-height living room, and a half arch is used for the single-height bedroom, creating a more intimate space. The floor heights vary according to a study of the existing wall structure in relation to different spatial qualities and possible ways of construction. Airas Sánchez Keller, Qianer Zhu © 2019