In this design course we will deal with the conception of an architectural intervention that is able to last 500 years or 15 generations.

The semester will begin with analyses of architectural interventions that have already lasted 500 years (excluding castles and churches). We will explore what makes these buildings and structures special and successful and under what conditions this has been achieved.

Is it the materialization, the location, the adaptability, the resilience or something else? How could these characteristics of a building be transferred to a structure that is designed at the beginning of the 21st century with the technology available today and can survive into the 24th century?

Our focus is on the development of an architectural intervention that is able to outlast 500 years as an extreme form of sustainable structure.