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Last week, we kicked off the semester ON SITE / OFF SITE - From Source to Shelter to Settlement.

The Makers’ Fair introduces students to the people, tools, infrastructure, and protocols that support making and research at ETH.

Through a series of hands-on stations, students explored prototyping, construction tools, connections, model photography, and safe workshop practices. Parallel stations introduced the studio bookshelf, library resources, material collections, and methods for finding and evaluating architectural precedents.

The aim is not to master new skills in a single day, but to understand how design develops through informed choices of media and methods. The workshop table and the library shelf are presented as complementary sites of inquiry: one tests ideas materially, while the other situates them historically and critically.

A special thank you to Petra Gehrmann, Christian Egli, Alessandro Tellini, Udo Thönnissen, and Hannah Friedmann for generously sharing their knowledge, experience, and expertise, and for helping us bring this project to life.

We would also like to express our gratitude to @zuercherziegeleien for generously providing us with materials that will enable us to experiment, explore, and uncover their hidden potential.

We look forward to an exciting semester of making, researching, and discovering together.
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ON SITE
OFF SITE
From Source to Shelter to Settlement

MESA CHAIR
Studio Positions
HS2026
FS2027

Find out more about the studio here:
https://einschreibung.arch.ethz.ch/details.php?prof=157
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We are delighted to present Materials in Transit: 28 Tables, From Discarded to Designed at Genoa Design Week 2026.
The exhibition showcases the work and approach of our chair through the projects developed in our second-year Bachelor Studio. It reflects our commitment to an ecological and creative approach to architecture—one that seeks to do more with less, works intelligently with what is already available, and uncovers value in materials and resources that are often overlooked, discarded, or considered waste. Through design, experimentation, and making, students explore how creativity can transform constraints into opportunities.
We are especially grateful to @stef_agostini of F/A for inviting us to participate in this remarkable event and for giving our students the opportunity to share their work with a wider audience. For many of them, this is their first public exhibition—an important milestone in their architectural education.
We invite you to visit us at Santa Maria di Castello, in the Vico dei Castagna District, and discover the projects, ideas, and processes on display.
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Bachelor 2nd Year Final Reviews. FS2026  With Guest Reviewers Andrea Faraguna, Jon Garbizu Etxaide, and Romina Grillo.
Thank you for the stimulating discussions, and congratulations to our students for their excellent work this semester.
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Our Master Thesis Reviews are happening on Tuesday 26th of May on the E Floor in HIL. We warmly invite you to come by!
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Future of Construction:
Building the Future

20–23 May 2026, Zurich
Thursday, 21 May 2026
Symposium — Day 1

Session 3, 15:30
ETH Zentrum HG
Industrialising Construction

Prof. Débora Mesa Molina
Daniel Hall
Marc Beermann
Birgitta Schock

Industrial construction is not only about producing buildings faster, it changes how projects are coordinated, how component parts are delivered, how digital standards are used, and how organisations adapt. The session explores work in prefabrication, BIM and data coordination, digitally supported workflows, AI platforms, new delivery models, and how novel construction practices can be engaged to advance efficiency and creativity.
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FOCUS WORK 1:1 LABORATORY Comte/Meuwly × Débora Mesa Molina

A joint Focus Work exploring the potential of the new Workshop HIL C 45.1 at ETH Zurich.
We approach architecture through 1:1 experimentation, material testing, and full-scale making—treating prototyping as research rather than final form. Students are invited to work hands-on with materials, embrace failure as part of the process, and develop open-ended architectural propositions grounded in construction.
Across a shared framework with Comte/Meuwly and Mesa, projects evolve through collective reviews, iterative making, and cross-media exploration (physical, digital, audiovisual).

📍 Focus: architecture as making, testing, and transformation. 🛠 Workshop-based, hands-on, experimental. 🌱 Ecological and material intelligence at the core.
📅 June 2026 – January 2027 📍 HIL C45.1 Workshop, ETH Zurich 📩 Application deadline: 8 May 2026
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