GREENHOUSE STUDIES - interdisciplinary colloquium

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​What is a greenhouse without greenery? Or a winter garden without winter? Greenhouses have long served a fundamental purpose: to create a controlled climate for plant life. From their origins as functional structures, greenhouses have evolved into different types of spaces, serving new purposes and opening up new possibilities in architecture. The late 20th century saw a resurgence in greenhouse innovation, influencing bioclimatic architecture, passive energy solutions and, more recently, as multi-purpose spaces.

This colloquium brings together voices from botany, history, architecture and engineering to explore a variety of themes related to this architectural milieu. The colloquium reconsiders greenhouses as responsive, inhabitable environments and seeks to rethink greenhouses as a dynamic interface between the natural and built environment. In the background, thirty-four case studies of greenhouses and wintergardens from the last century illustrate one of architecture’s most fascinating artefacts.

Colloquium organised by the EAST laboratory at ARCHIZOOM at EPFL, as part of the exhibition Sun Shines on Architecture and the Solar Biennale 2 

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