House 2

ALICE Studio EPFL, Discipline, expanding design practices, Low Density, Politics and economics, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Active Public Spaces, Agency of Urban Organization, Architect’s role, Collaborative work, Cultural agitator, Discipline, Empowering society, Experimental public space, Interdisciplinary work, Learning with wood, Pine wood, Political & Economic Approach, Project, Public Space, Public space role, Social culture, Street Culture, Territorial Approach, Timber, Urban culture, Urban Paradigms, Wood, Wood construction

A wood frame 240-square-metre public installation in Zurich, collaboratively built by EPFL’s ALICE laboratory
HOUSE 2 – COUNTER CITY (www.countercity.ch) is a 240-square-metre public architectural installation situated next to the Toni-Areal in Zurich. The project is based on an experimental format for collaborative design and construction conceived by ALICE (Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace) —a laboratory of EPFL led by Dieter Dietz.