INCM 009LIECHTENSTEIN16TO23OCT2009LARGE SWISS TRIP23TO26OCT2009

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LIECHTENSTEINTHE PRINCIPALITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN IS A TINY AND THE ONLY DOUBLYLANDLOCKED ALPINE COUNTRY IN WESTERN EUROPE, BORDERED BYSWITZERLAND TO ITS WEST AND BY AUSTRIA TO ITS EAST. IT IS THE LASTREMNANT OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. MOUNTAINOUS, IT IS A WINTERSPORTS DESTINATION, ALTHOUGH IT IS PERHAPS BEST KNOWN AS A TAXHEAVEN. DESPITE THIS, IT IS NOT HEAVILY URBANIZED. MANYCULTIVATED FIELDS AND SMALL FARMS CHARACTERIZE ITS LANDSCAPE.IT IS THE SMALLEST GERMAN-SPEAKING COUNTRY AND THE SIXTH-SMALLEST INDEPENDENT NATION IN THE WORLD BY LAND AREA.LIECHTENSTEIN IS SITUATED IN THE UPPER RHINE VALLEY OF THEEUROPEAN ALPS. THE ENTIRE WESTERN BORDER OF LIECHTENSTEIN ISFORMED BY THE RHINE RIVER. MEASURED NORTH TO SOUTH, THECOUNTRY IS ONLY ABOUT 24!KM LONG AND ITS AREA IS 160.475!KM2. INITS EASTERN PORTION, LIECHTENSTEIN RISES TO HIGHER ALTITUDES.DESPITE ITS ALPINE LOCATION, PREVAILING SOUTHERLY WINDS MAKETHE CLIMATE OF LIECHTENSTEIN COMPARATIVELY MILD.

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HOCHSCHULE.LIINSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNINGPHILOSOPHY: ARCHITECTS ARE COMMITTED TO THE ARTOF BUILDING. THEIR RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHATTRANSPIRES DURING CONSTRUCTION DEMANDS SOUNDKNOWLEDGE AND CLEAR JUDGMENT REGARDINGMATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION, UTILISATION ANDIMPACT, MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMY, SUSTAINABILITYAND ACCEPTANCE. OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE ISARCHITECTURE’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE RELATIONSHIPSBETWEEN SETTLEMENTS AND SOCIETY, NATURE ANDLANDSCAPE. RENOVATION, RENATURATION ANDINTEGRATION ARE CONSEQUENTLY BECOMINGINCREASINGLY CRUCIAL . THIS IS THE HOCHSCHULE.LI

LARGE SWISS TRIP23TO26OCT2009CHUR CITY : A DAY IN THE CAPITOL OF GRAUBÜNDENTHE OLDEST CITY OF SWITZERLAND IN THE LARGESTKANTON IN THE WORLD. SLEEPING IN SWISS BUNKER.SYMPOSIUM WITH LOCAL ARCHITECTS

VALS : WE CAN STAY OVER NIGHT IN THE HOTEL FORTWO DAYS. ON THE WAY TO THE THERME, WE WILLSTOP BY SMALL AND LARGE PIECES OF ARCHITECTUREBUILT IN THE SWISS ALPES, WHERE NATURE WOULDREALLY LIKE TO TAKE OVER THE AREA AGAIN .

SWITZERLAND(GERMAN: SCHWEIZ, SWISSGERMAN : SCHWYZ, FRENCH: SUISSE,ITALIAN: SVIZZERA, ROMANSH: SVIZRA). THE SWISS CONFEDERATION(CONFOEDERATIO HELVETICA IN LATIN) IS A COUNTRY OF ROUGHLY 7.6MILLION PEOPLE IN WITH AN AREA OF 41,285 KM2. SWITZERLAND IS ACONSISTING OF 26 STATES CALLED KANTONS. IT IS BORDERED BY THECOUNTRIES GERMANY, AUSTRIA, ITALY, FRANCE AND LIECHTENSTEIN.SWITZERLAND HAS A LONG HISTORY OF NEUTRALITY, IT HAS NOT BEENAT WAR SINCE 1815 AND HOSTS MANY INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS,INCLUDING THE RED CROSS, WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION AND ONE OFTHE TWO EUROPEAN U.N OFFICES. HOWEVER, IT IS NOT A MEMBER OFTHE EUROPEAN UNION. SWITZERLAND IS MULTILINGUAL AND HAS FOURNATIONAL LANGUAGES : GERMAN, FRENCH, ITALIAN AND ROMANSH.WITH AN AREA OF 41,285KM2, SWITZERLAND IS A RELATIVELY SMALLCOUNTRY. THE MORE MOUNTAINOUS SOUTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTRYIS FAR MORE SPARSELY POPULATED, WHILE THE NORTHERN HALF HASA GREATER DENSITY, AS IT COMPRISES MORE HOSPITABLE HILLYTERRAIN.

GRAUBÜNDENOR GRISONS (GERMAN: GRAUBÜNDEN, ITALIAN: GRIGIONI, ROMANSH:GRISCHUN) IS THE LARGEST AND EASTERNMOST KANTON OFSWITZERLAND. THE AREA OF THE CANTON IS 7105 KM2. ONLY ABOUT ATHIRD OF THIS IS COMMONLY REGARDED AS PRODUCTIVE LAND.FORESTS COVER ABOUT A FIFTH OF THE TOTAL AREA. THE CANTON ISALMOST ENTIRELY MOUNTAINOUS, COMPRISING THE HIGHLANDS OF THERHINE AND INN RIVER VALLEYS. MANY OF ITS SCENIC AREAS ARE PARTOF THE ONLY SWISS NATIONAL PARK. THE MOUNTAIN RANGES IN THECENTRAL AREA ARE VERY DEEP, SOME OF WHICH ARE CONSIDERED THEDEEPEST VALLEYS IN EUROPE. THESE VALLEYS WERE ORIGINALLYSETTLED BY THE RATIANS. MOST OF THE LANDS OF THE CANTON WEREONCE PART OF A ROMAN PROVINCE CALLED RAETIA WHICH WASESTABLISHED IN 15 BC . THE AREA LATER WAS PART OF THE LANDS OFTHE DIOCESE (CHUR), WITCH IS THE OLDEST CITY OF SWITZERLAND ANDTODAYS CAPITOL AT CURIA OF GRAUBÜNDEN. AGRICULTURE ANDTOURISM ARE THE PILLARS OF THE CANTON ‘ S ECONOMY.

CHUR CITY(GERMAN: CHUR, ROMANSH: CUIRA, ITALIAN: COIRA, LATIN: CURIARHAETORUM) IS THE CAPITAL OF THE BIGGEST CANTON OFSWITZERLAND AND LIES IN THE NORTHERN PART. CHUR IS THE SEAT OFTHE BISHOPS OF CHUR AND CAPITAL OF THE SWISS CANTON OFGRISONS, IN WHICH CHUR IS THE MOST POPULOUS MUNICIPALITY.ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF SETTLEMENT AT THE SITE GOES BACK ASFAR AS THE PFYN CULTURE (3900-3500 BC), THEREFORE CHUR IS THEOLDEST CITY OF SWITZERLAND. THE CITY IS LOCATED AT A HIGHLYSTRATEGIC LOCATION, WHERE THE ROADS FROM SEVERAL MAJORALPINE TRANSIT ROUTES COME TOGETHER. THE MODERN NAME CHURDERIVES FROM WHEN THE SITE WAS A ROMAN FORTIFIED CAMP, CURIARAETORUM. CHUR IS 74 KM BY RAIL FROM ZURICH, AND IS THEMEETING-POINT OF THE ROUTES FROM ITALY OVER MANY ALPINEPASSES. SO THAT IT IS THE CENTRE OF AN ACTIVE TRADE AND IT IS THEBIGGEST SHOPPING - DESTINATION BETWEEN ZURICH AND MILANO.

THERME VALSZUMTHOR WAS SELECTED AS ARCHITECT FOR THE SPA. THE FACILITYWAS BUILT BETWEEN 1993-1996. THE BATHS WERE DESIGNED TO LOOKAS IF THEY PRE-DATED THE HOTEL COMPLEX, AS IF THEY WERE A FORMOF CAVE OR QUARRY-LIKE STRUCTURE. THIS IS PARTICULARLY EVIDENTFROM OBSERVING THE GRASS ROOF STRUCTURE OF THE BATHS, WHICHRESEMBLE THE FOUNDATIONS OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE, ANDREVEAL THE FORM OF THE VARIOUS BATH ROOMS, WHICH LIE BELOW,HALF BURIED INTO THE HILL-SIDE. BUILT USING LOCALLY QUARRIEDVALSER QUARZITE SLABS, THE SPA BUILDING IS MADE UP OF 15DIFFERENT TABLE-LIKE UNITS, 5 METRES IN HEIGHT, WITH CONCRETEROOF UNITS SUPPORTED BY TIE-BEAMS. THESE UNITS FIT TOGETHERLIKE A GIANT JIGSAW PUZZLE. THE NATURE OF THE CONSTRUCTION ISREVEALED THROUGH CLOSE INSPECTION OF THE ROOF. THE ROOFS OFTHE UNITS DON’T JOIN, BUT ARE COVERED BY GLASS. THERE ARE 60,0001 METRE LONG SECTIONS OF STONE FORMING THE CLADDING OF THEWALLS. THESE ARE INITIALLY APPEARING RANDOM LIKE AN WALL .

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