Bedroom

The project examines the contradictions of the domestic sphere by questioning the assumption that the private home is inherently a space of safety. While bedrooms are associated with intimacy, rest, and protection, they are also space where domestic violence remains hidden and depoliticized.

By bringing this issue into the public realm, the project challenges the separation between private suffering and collective responsibility, proposing care and safety as urban concerns rather than individual matters confined to the household.

The intervention transforms the Hardturm parking garage into an anonymous shelter that combines spaces of retreat, support, and collective life. Rather than isolating residents, the project develops a spatial system based on gradients of privacy, creating transitions between bedrooms, communal areas, and shared gardens. The existing ramp structure becomes the organizational spine of the project, connecting different levels while producing encounters and orientations throughout the building.

Bedroom typologies respond to different needs for independence and coexistence, while the transparent concrete facade negotiates between visibility and anonymity. Through the transformation of a former mobility infrastructure into a collective bedroom, the project questions the boundaries of domesticity and proposes architecture as a means to make structural forms of violence visible within the urban realm.

Spring 2026

Project by: Alessia Triebs, Sanja Markovic, Lara Aiello, Romane Aubert

Teaching team: Anna Puigjaner, Dafni Retzepi, Paule Perron,Valentina Noce, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Lisa Maillard, Pol Esteve Castelló, He Shen

Images 4, 5: Luís Úrculo

Images 1, 2, 3: Pierre Marmy