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Architecture d’intérieur
Exhibition
Geneva, Spring 2023
INTERIOR ECOLOGIES – MAIA GRADUATE SHOW
INTERIOR ECOLOGIES is an ongoing project by MAIA, the Master of Arts in Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève. It investigates architecture at the intersection of space and ecology, questioning the default association of this field with territorial scales, and claiming that interior spaces construct multiscalar ecologies from within. Space...
Studio
Geneva, Spring 2023
THE STUDIO: HOW TO ENVISION THE FUTURE OF LIVING AND WORKING IN TIMES OF CRISIS?
During the spring semester of 2022, seven students of the Master in Interior Architecture (MAIA) at HEAD-Geneva developed their own studio space through prospective scenarios on living and working in 2050. It had been a while since the group noticed certain changes in their surrounding world. Everything approached discreetly, making...
Thesis
Geneva, Spring 2023
INTERIOR ECOLOGIES THESIS
Developed as part of the Master of Arts in Interior Architecture (MAIA) at HEAD – Genève, this series of MA...
Workshop
Geneva, December 2022
CIRCULARITY
Nowadays, construction is one of the most polluting sectors. What was seen as a source of value a few centuries...
Studio
Geneva, Fall 2022-23
SHOULD THE PENCIL BE CREDITED AS THE AUTHOR TOO? : HOW THE NON-HUMAN IS DRIVING INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
The abundance of energy provided by coal and oil for more than a century has gradually led us to lose...
Studio
Geneva, Fall 2022-2023
HOW DO WE BUILD TOGETHER?
The city of Geneva has a high office vacancy rate, which is due as much to the obsolescence of the...
Symposium
Geneva, December 2022
INTERIOR ECOLOGIES
The conference aimed to bring together a series of transversal personalities who addressed the subject of non-human architecture. From simple...
Workshop
Hyères, September 2022
HORS D’OEUVRES. A joint workshop with Ecole Camondo.
Together, students from HEAD-Genève and the Ecole Camondo were invited to interact with the garden and rooms of the Villa Romaine...
Workshop
Mexico, July 2022
APPROPRIATE BARRAGAN. Photography workshop with Bas Princen.
Luis Barragán’s architecture is familiar thanks to a small number of carefully selected photographs. A certain idea of his work...
Project
Milan, June 2022
THE IMPOSSIBLE SHOWROOM X MILAN DESIGN WEEK
The Impossible Showroom unveils a new typology of virtual reality environments specifically created to exhibit design objects. Developed by students...
Project
Milan, June 2022
THE IMPOSSIBLE SHOWROOM X VOLUME MAGAZINE
A research platform for exploring the digital as a medium. A collaboration between MAIA + Volume magazine  In 1970, the...
Studio
Geneva, Spring 2022
THE ANTHROPOCENE STYLE: HOW INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE CAN BEAT GLOBAL WARMING
The fight against global warming has now become a global priority that is legislated by international conferences and regulated in...
Studio
Geneva, Fall 2021
HIGH PLACES
High places looks for uncelebrated buildings in new territories. The ultimate aim is to reflect on the potential and ‘publicness’...
Project
HEAD Store, Geneva
DIEGO LAMP
Designed as part of the Herbarium of Interiors project carried out by the MA in Interior Architecture at HEAD –...
Project
Seoul, September 2021
CIRCA DIEM: Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021
The CIRCA DIEM project is developed by EPFL and HEAD – Genève for the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism...
Workshop
Geneva, September 2021
NOCTURNAL STILL LIFE
For the SCENES DE NUIT research programme, MA students of MAIA at HEAD – Genève are invited to explore the...
Project
Milan, September 04-09, 2021
HERBARIUM OF INTERIORS: A Milk Bar, Curated by India Mahdavi
longlisted, DEZEEN AWARD installation design, August 2022 commended, FRAME AWARD interior of the month, November 2021 A herbarium is a...
Project
Toulon, June 2021
HERBARIUM OF INTERIORS: Learning from Kronenhalle
A herbarium is a specimen that becomes its own image. Being multiform, it fluctuates between the image, the 1:1 model,...
Studio
Geneva, Spring 2021
RE: WORK!
Rehabilitating existing resources owned by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) into new unemployment centers and places of self-reconstruction. Facing a...
Project
Geneva, May 6–8, 2021
Archipelago: Architectures for the Multiverse
The Archipelago: Architectures for the Multiverse broadcast concluded on May 8th, after three days of conversation centered on urgent disciplinary...
Workshop
Geneva, February 2021
CIRCA DIEM
The CIRCA DIEM project is developed by HEAD – Genève and EPFL for the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism...
Studio
Geneva, Fall 2020
Heritage : Floating Points
The aim of the semester is to reflect on the public and the domestic, on interior spaces and their potential...
Studio
Geneva, Fall 2020
Herbarium of Interiors – 2020 Edition
Herbarium of Interiors is a special collaboration between India Mahdavi and MAIA for Milan’s 2021 Salone del Mobile. Few formats define more...
Project
Geneva, December 2020
Space Duality: winner of the Red Dot Award 2020 and FRAME Award 2020
Space Duality received the  Red Dot Award 2020, Brands & Communication Design category, as well as the  Frame Innovation Award People Choice...
Project
Geneva, October 2020
Art Humanity Prize 2020 – CarEvents
The Art and Humanity prize rewards students or graduates who have achieved the best artistic creation in Visual Arts, Design...
Workshop
Geneva, September 2020
Inaugural Week – Self-theatricalization
Workshop HEAD – Genève / École Camondo The space granted to video conferences is paradoxical; while we are brought to exchange...
Studio
Geneva, Spring 2020
Production Line
The question of transparency is central to contemporary societies. Phenomena of ecological and social impacts only reach arenas of public...
Studio
Geneva, Fall 2019
Herbarium of Interiors – 2019 Edition
Reflecting on the concept of « herbarium » as understood within interior architecture – spaces whose image oscillates between content and representation,...
Workshop
Toulon, September 2019
Inaugural Week – Villa Romaine
Workshop HEAD-Geneva and Camondo School, Toulon. Students were ask to build temporary structures within the Roman Villa in Hyères, a former...
Project
Arles, mars-juilllet 2019
Les périscopes
As part of the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, Presence Suisse, the City and the Canton of Geneva, asked students...
Studio
Geneva
Interior Landscape : Fashion Show
As part of the Interior Landscape studio, students developed a scenography for the HEAD – Geneva fashion show. During a...
Studio
Program and Heritage: Depuis l’intérieur
The studio Depuis l’intérieur (From the inside) wants to offer an important voice to interior architects in the debate on...
Project
Lausanne, May 2019
Space and Representation : Scène de nuit
As part of their Spring 2019 exhibition, the f’ar (forum architectures Lausanne) invited architects Javier Fernandez-Contreras and Youri Kravtchenko to...
Studio
Geneva, January 2019
Energy and Climate: Different states of water
During the spring semester 2019, the studio “Energy and Climate” chose an element very often present in the interior architecture:...
Studio
HEAD–AI’ID x MONTBLANC
The studio Space Activating emotion designs and builds spaces that aim to surprise and touch its visitors/clients. During a semester,...
Project Workshop
A Story in a Single Frame
Salone Internazionale del mobile di Milano 2019
Students in Interior Architecture, Visual Communication and Product Design/ Jewellery and Accessory designed and produced the display cases in association...
Workshop
HEAD–AI’ID x Aesop 2019
Aesop has decided to collaborate for the third year in a row with HEAD students to develop the windows of...
Studio
Geneva, January 2019
Program and Heritage: Occupé à habiter
The Studio Program and Heritage focuses on architectural intervention in the existing housing structure. This semester, under the title “Occupé...
Studio
Geneva, January 2019
Interior Landscape: UNIGE
The “Interior Landscape” studio looked this semester at the renovation of the hall of the Faculty of Sciences – University...
Studio
Geneva, January 2019
Energy and Climate: Anthropocene style
The studio explores the definition of a new decorative art, resulting from the climate change. Until the invention of central...
Studio
Geneva, January 2019
Space and Representation : Scènes de nuit
The studio Space and Representation is interested in space and its representation: each space a has a place, each place...
Project
Langenthal, 2nd-4th of November 2018
Designers’ Saturday : #LOOSLAB
Taking part in Designers’ Saturday, the HEAD – Genève offers an experience between reality and illusion, the #LOOSLAB. Inspired by...
Workshop
Geneva, September 2018
Introduction Week – PUB
During the Introduction Week, students from each level of the three-year interior architecture course took part in a workshop that...
Project
Milano, April 2018
IN MY HEAD, Salone Internazionale del Mobile
The IN MY HEAD exhibition invites the audience into a 250-square-metre wonderland entirely dedicated to HEAD – Genève, providing insight...
Workshop
Bern, Geneva, March 2018
HEAD–AI’ID x Aesop 2018
In the Aesop workshop, HEAD students were invited to design and build two Swiss shop display windows in Bern and...
Studio
Geneva, February 2018
Household scene. Part 3/3 Space Viewing Machine
This semester-long workshop looked at tools for the projection of domestic life. It investigated the art of seeing and the...
Project
Denver, October 2017
HEAD won Solar Decathlon Challenge
The Swiss team and their solar house, the NeighborHub, won the prestigious Solar Decathlon 2017 competition in the Unites States. The Swiss Living...
Studio
“Aux Mille Pins”
Contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional Japanese tea house for the shop “Mille Pins”. In the framework of the studio led...
Workshop
Geneva, March 2017
La Part du Rêve
In order to continue the research developed during the last inaugural week, this workshop aims to finalize the construction of...
Studio
Geneva, February 2017
Atelier Process
For this semester project, the students tried to address the questions asked by the meeting of different lifestyles and their...
Project
Langenthal, November 2016
HEAD–AI’ID x USM : A Breathing Grid
The iconic Swiss furniture brand USM invited the Interior Architecture Department of HEAD – Genève to design its entire stand...
Project Workshop
Geneva, 9h December 2015
HEAD–AI’ID x TEDGlobal
As part of ” the week of all is possible” (26-30 October 2015 ), 18 HEAD students worked with Youri...
Workshop
Geneva, February 2015
Celebrating USM with Teo Jakob
2015 coincides with the 50th anniversary of USM. The company Teo Jakob suggested a workshop at HEAD focused on the...
Project
Milano , April 2014
Conversation Pieces, Salone Internazionale Del Mobile
Conversation Pieces, an apartment designed entirely by students, gets its name from the English term centrepieces, the decorative arrangements dating...