LAYERED INFRASTRUCTURE / Lugano University, Architectural Competition

This project imagines the university campus as a layered infrastructural organism, where learning, research, and everyday life interweave through open and porous frameworks. Compact volumes rise from a simple geometric grid, while light cuts and patios let air and light permeate the structure, transforming mass into breathing matter.

The infrastructural spine anchors the program: laboratories below, shared spaces and learning platforms above, and public thresholds opening toward the river park. The system holds future growth without predetermining its form, allowing the campus to expand and adapt over time.

The design operates as an open framework rather than a fixed masterplan. It treats infrastructure as the silent structure of coexistence, where environmental intelligence, collective movement, and social life entangle.

Team: Riccardo Vannucci, Giuseppina Forte, Erika Trabucco, Francesco Salvolini, Cecilia Zeta, Frauke Petretto