ARC-HEST 2024-2025

Swiss-Korean Academic Exchange Programme for master students of EPFL, HEIA-FR and UNIFR: Study of the synergy of architectural design, human factors, and technologies in the office buildings and their combined effect on the indoor environmental quality and human-building interaction in the context of the local culture and architecture in the post pandemic era.

The 3rd edition of the ARC-HEST joint pedagogical programme in the framework of two-week long Exchange Schools, a Summer School 2024 in South Korea and Winter School 2025 in Switzerland, offers lectures, workshops, and studios. The essential part of each Exchange School is the visit of 3 case study buildings by students and the analysis of the current state of the building design, operation, indoor comfort, occupant’s satisfaction, and behavior by different student groups. The main task of the student groups is to design a building assessment method, and to collect, process and evaluate data from the existing buildings. Based on the findings, the groups developed innovative solutions for the improvement of the built indoor environment, the satisfaction of the occupants with the building, and human-building interaction in the context of the diversity of occupants and architectural design across Switzerland and South Korea.