| Brigginshaw + Lindroos | 2016 | City and Hall | Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio | Professors: Piet Eckert, Wim Eckert with Michelle Badrutt Andrea Faraguna Introduction The City is a place for dreams to come true. It is a place for desires, opportunities and chances; for ideal, surreal and real encounters. We believe that the City is the ideal place for an architecture that chooses to embed itself within its

| Elisa Vegué Llorente | 2016 | Master course 1 | Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio | Professors: Atelier Ishigami Structures with a closed nylon envelope filled with loose air and held by very thin bending metallic pillars, placed along a vast dune desert near the seashore of Gran Canaria. A landscape built by and for the wind. Ephemeral and everchanging. The dunes of sand have been shaped by the wind within a

| Pedro Frade | 2016 | PFC | Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa | Professors: Francisco Aires Mateus, Joaquim Moreno, Marco Arraiolos The analysis strategy of the territory of Alcácer do Sal consists in a change of the scale of perception, therefore altering the object’s understanding; not as a city or a village, but between scales. The units of intervention, consist in three elements: House, Kitchen and Garden. L

| Riccardo Guglielmi, Cosimo Marchiori, Alex Recaldin | 2016 | Thesis | IUAV – University of Architecture of Venice  Knowledge has spread and the number of those who have access to it has grown significantly while their origin is more and more varied. This has happened in ways and by means, which increasingly depend on the Web. The latter, in fact, has gradually replaced all those physical spaces and tools, whi

| Albert Montilla Molas | 2017 | PFC | ETSAB | Tribunal: Félix Solaguren, Joyce deBotton, Alicia Huguet Desde las concepciones más antiguas de ciudad, el mercado ha sido un elemento esencial en la configuración del espacio urbano. Llamado ágora en Grecia, foro en la civilización romana, o mercado actualmente en el mundo occidental, éste ha sido siempre un espacio que ha permitido el intercambio de bienes físicos y so

| Martina Fabré Nadal | 2017 | PFC | ETSAV | Profesores: Manel González   Al centre de Terrassa, entre la Plaça Nova i la Plaça Vella, queda ubicada una illa que aglutina diverses tipologies arquitectòniques i que concentra la transició entre dos teixits urbans molt diferenciats. Al front nord -delimitat per cases de cos i la catedral del Sant Esperit- s’estén la zona peatonal del centre de la ciutat, mentre que

| Andrea Bacchi, Romana Kranzbuehler, Federico Muratori | 2015 | Master course 1 | Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio | Professors: Piet and Wim Eckert Current statistics show that the population growth of Zurich continues without pause. Creating space for more than 80’000 new residents is a significant challenge; yet, it is also a tremendous opportunity in a city where land annexing is not under discussion, indu