Casa dell'Accademia

Carola Barchi, Jachen Könz and Ludovica Molo, 2006

The design for the Academy House consists of two bars enclosing a green space in the middle and provides living units and communal spaces for the students of the Academy of Architecture.

The project fits into the site perpendicular to the road, forming a transitional element between the moraine hill above and the road below. At the same time it stands between the park of the cantonal socio-psychiatric organisation on one side and the high school campus on the other, articulating the separation between the two existing systems.