During their tour of the Swiss facilities, the students received a masterclass on the latest innovations in materiality, and practical workshops. These included an 'Admixture Cooking Class', where they experimented with admixtures on the behaviour of concrete in its liquid state, as well as sessions focused on digital fabrication, where they identified the methods of additive, subtractive and manipulative manufacturing.

Following this visit, the students of the course will work on projects that seek to explore new means of coexistence through materiality, addressing current issues such as sustainability in architecture.

Students’ projects must answer this question: How can the future coexist with the environment? The aim is to redefine the relationship between architecture and sustainability by developing architectural proposals that analyse the flows between materiality, infrastructure and territory, while also emphasising socio-ecological interactions. The projects will identify new ways of coexistence on three levels: territory, infrastructure and materiality.

The course Metabolic Materiality is an elective for students at the School of Architecture and is open to students from other universities as a continuing education course. The programme brings architecture, research and professional practice together by exploring the relationship between materials, infrastructure and the city from a sustainable perspective.