UNHIDDEN
«UNHIDDEN» ENTWIRFT NEUE SOZIALE RÄUME UND FOLGT DABEI DER THESE, DASS IN DEN ENTSORGUNGSRÄUMEN DER EUROPAALLEE SOZIALE ORDNUNGEN IMPLODIEREN.
Trash. Waste. Disposal. As individuals, we coexist with our environment, moving through our daily lives, consuming goods, and generating waste. The proper disposal of waste affects every single person, and it is the lowest common denominator of all of us. «Hiding trash from the public demonstrates appropriate behavior and a sense of social belonging,» writes Alessandra Ponte in a text about the domestication of trash. Waste is a testimony of the imperfect. Nevertheless, there are innumerable approaches to get waste out of sight as efficiently as possible. Hiding is the solution we found to deal with our production of waste. Hiding, in that sense, is seen as a multiple, as it is something that is repeated every day by each of us in different ways.
This master’s thesis explores what happens when such an encounter is no longer avoided: when the waste disposal room becomes a shared space and begins to push upward into the public realm. As a case study, the project examines Europaallee, one of the cleanest and most controlled urban developments in the city. In this context, UNHIDDENimagines the disposal room not as an endpoint, but as the starting point for new, collective forms of spatial use.
Master-Thesis by Eva Schneuwly
in collaboration with Entsorgung + Recycling Stadt Zürich
supervised by Chair of Jan de Vylder, Chair of Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg, Chair of Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke
D-ARCH, ETH Zurich
Zurich, 2023
Trash. Waste. Disposal. As individuals, we coexist with our environment, moving through our daily lives, consuming goods, and generating waste. The proper disposal of waste affects every single person, and it is the lowest common denominator of all of us. «Hiding trash from the public demonstrates appropriate behavior and a sense of social belonging,» writes Alessandra Ponte in a text about the domestication of trash. Waste is a testimony of the imperfect. Nevertheless, there are innumerable approaches to get waste out of sight as efficiently as possible. Hiding is the solution we found to deal with our production of waste. Hiding, in that sense, is seen as a multiple, as it is something that is repeated every day by each of us in different ways.
This master’s thesis explores what happens when such an encounter is no longer avoided: when the waste disposal room becomes a shared space and begins to push upward into the public realm. As a case study, the project examines Europaallee, one of the cleanest and most controlled urban developments in the city. In this context, UNHIDDENimagines the disposal room not as an endpoint, but as the starting point for new, collective forms of spatial use.
Master-Thesis by Eva Schneuwly
in collaboration with Entsorgung + Recycling Stadt Zürich
supervised by Chair of Jan de Vylder, Chair of Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg, Chair of Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke
D-ARCH, ETH Zurich
Zurich, 2023