Edition 2024-2025

“Pojangmacha”

This third edition of the joint pedagogical program in the framework of two-week long Exchange Schools – a Summer School 2024 in South Korea and Winter School 2025 in Switzerland, will consist of lectures, workshops, studios and prototypingexperiences. The essential part of each Exchange School is the visit of case study buildings by students and the analysis ofthe building design, operation, indoor comfort, occupant’s satisfaction, and behaviour by different student groups. The maintask of the student groups is closely associated with on-site measurement sessions, performance assessments andinterviews over selected case studies.

This ARC-HEST edition focuses on “Pojangmacha” (포장마차 in Korean, meaning ‘movable market stand / woodenwagon’) that are frequently installed in streets in Korean cities. Based on their findings over this particular type of “tinybuildings”, the groups will develop “revisited Pojangmacha” with a special attention put to the environmentalperformances and occupants satisfaction for human-building interactions during the Summer Workshop in 12 – 23 August, 2024. During the Winter Workshop in 3 – 16 February, 2025, the participants will have the opportunity to buildand test prototypes of their shelters projects at the smartlivinglab, Fribourg.

ECTS Credits
The programme is equivalent to a semester project and offers 4 ECTS for Master students at EPFL (ENAC), 5 ECTS for Master students at UNIFR, 6 ECTS for Master students at HEIA-FR.

Schedule 2024-2025

21 february 2024
Choice of theme
4 april 2024
Student registration
14 may 2024
Student selection
12 - 23 August 2024
Summer workshop - South Korea
3 - 16 february 2025
Winter workshop - Switzerland
16 February 2025
Student presentation / Closing ceremony
ARC-HEST Brochure 2024-2025

Link to PDF brochure

Targeted Outcomes
  • Establishment of the long-term cooperation programme between the partners, facilitate the exchange of ideas among students and enhance creativity.
  • Increased mutual knowledge of Swiss and Korean cultures and traditions in architecture, engineering, and technology.
  • Reinforced Swiss scientific and cultural presence in the fields of architecture and construction in East-Asia and vice versa.
  • Dissemination of the results of the two Exchange Schools.
  • Joint research topics originated from the meeting of different competencies among the academicians of the universities involved in the programme.
  • Long-term research cooperation and scientific publications as a result of the joint research.
Useful links

Summer & Winter Workshops

The student worked on analyzing the outdoor space environments and using the data to come up with a mobile structure.

Yoonhie Lee
Professor at Ewha Womans University, 2024 Edition