Studio Architecture II: Future Architectures Platform
Studio A2 | Future Architectures Platform (A2|FAP) focuses on the production of ideas and work that aims to develop new forms of living that aspire to enable a more free and equitable society by looking into methods of co-operation, co-financing, co-living, co-working, co-education, and co-creation.
English is the A2|FAP's main communication language.
Annotation of Semester Assignment SumSem 2025/2026:
WILD PLANETARY SYSTEMS: Design for protected areas in transition
A planetary promise is being written into policy: 30×30—the commitment to designate 30% of Earth’s land and oceans as protected areas by 2030. It arrives with urgency, diplomacy, and funding, framed as a necessary response to climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse. But as the map of “protected nature” expands, so does the question of what protection actually means—and for whom. Protected areas are not empty: they are inhabited by complex ecologies, lived histories, economies, and rights. They are governed through borders, categories, metrics, and enforcement. They can enable care and repair, but they can also intensify exclusion—especially where conservation is used to displace Indigenous and local communities, or where protection becomes a new brand of extraction through tourism, carbon markets, data capture, and infrastructure.
This studio begins inside that contradiction. If the next decade is an era of accelerated protection, it is also an era of accelerated transition: fire regimes rewriting forests, drought and salinity shifting wetlands, floods remaking deltas, species moving across corridors and borders, and institutions struggling to manage landscapes that refuse stability. In that context, architecture cannot be only a visitor center or a scenic object. It becomes a cosmopolitical instrument: a building and a system that stages negotiation, makes conflicts legible, supports monitoring and repair, and re-distributes responsibility across human and more-than-human actors. We will design regenerative observatories that are more than observation—architectures that host stewardship as a daily practice: sensing, learning, maintaining, mediating, sheltering, regenerating.
