The term \u00abparallax\u00bb (ancient Greek: \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1\u03be\u03b9\u03c2 par\u00e1llaxis change, alternation) describes the apparent shift or change of an object when the observer adopts different positions. Applying this phenomenon, which seems to be merely a shift of one\u2019s own perception, to reality itself reveals the inconsistency of the world. Inherent antagonisms are materialised in objects and the space around us: sometimes objects appear like this, sometimes like that, and there is no ultimate truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the focus \u00abArchitecture & Material\u00bb the students approached this fluctuating space of relationships and explored it by means of various media. Ultimately they translated it into materialised architectonic interventions which rethink the relationship between the House and the City, Inside and Outside, Architecture and Landscape, in order to create spaces of community and co-existence between and beyond existing limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Spring Semester 2023, the site of observations of the Master Studio \u00abArchitecture & Material\u00bb was the area in the western part of Lucerne<\/strong> stretching along Baselstrasse, L\u00e4delistrasse, Dammstrasse, Meyerstrasse, Sentimattstrasse and G\u00fctschstrasse. The perimeter lies between the rural elements of the G\u00fctsch Hill and the Reuss River with its bridges. As a threshold space, it is inherently heterogeneous. It is marked by rifts; buildings from different times with different grain, programmatically diverse, passed through by traffic axes, topographically and infrastructurally complex; retaining walls, underpasses, car parks, old industries, commercial and residential, the funicular. Here the potential to be a parallactic, antagonistic space is immanent.<\/p>\n\n\n\nProject by Tobias Furter<\/h3>\n\n\n\n