So, how can we live better?

Book

In this edition, I analyse the influence of time on the architecture of the Family House, which has been abandoned for many years. Exploring the intergenerational dimension at the heart of this temporal investigation, I have structured each aspect in terms of degrees, generational degrees. 
As the great-granddaughter of the house's last residents, I represent degree 2, while my father embodies degree 1. So, as we explored the house, we described it by sharing anecdotes and affinities specific to our respective degrees. The investigation thus evolved into a family dimension, going beyond its purely temporal nature.

By Candice Aepli

Book

Swiss atomic shelters are an architectural phenomenon that contrasts with the country's neutrality.
This is why, when Switzerland publishes documents relating to war and the defence of its citizens, the tone used is very modest, even naïve, given the seriousness of the subjects covered. In the same way, the publication contrasts the seriousness of the subject of shelters with the spectacular beauty of the disasters that justify the use of shelters.

By Eliot Dubi

Book

Ruelle Thomas 21 is where my mum's bookshop used to be, on the ground floor of our family home, and which went bankrupt in 2015. Each room was dedicated to a particular audience: cookery books in the kitchen, children's books in the bedroom, and novels in the living room, for adults. The best way for me to express this was to use this separation of the flat to delimit the literary space of each person. I took my point of view as a child who didn't like to read, to experiment with and deconstruct the sequence imposed by literature, using my mum's literary criticism, book covers and a manifesto to make people feel less guilty.

By Amélie Bertholet

Video

"I never felt at home" is about the feeling, the discomfort and the melancholy of never feeling at home, no matter where you live. 
The discomfort felt outside is brought into the intimacy of the home through projection.

By Léa Corin

Book

Childhood, an ephemeral and singular stage, forms the basis of our identity. "Ce qu'il reste de la vérité" is a narrative and personal exploration of childhood in care. The key idea is to present this nuanced experience, oscillating between fleeting happiness and complex issues, through a dual narrative: that of the child who, without really understanding the circumstances, undergoes them with innocence and dissociation; and that of the adult, whose more mature view offers a retrospective reflection on this singular period of life.

By Mathilde Driebold

Book

This research project involves a technical analysis of lighting interactions within a residential space, with particular emphasis on the mental health criteria engendered by lighting and the visual preferences of potential occupants. The aim of this analysis is to deconstruct the mechanisms and variables influencing interior lighting, architecture and the environment in order to create a synthesis between functionality and aesthetics.

By Marc Facchinetti