Swiss Radio and Television SRF featured Prof Thomas Schroepfer, Prof Sacha Menz, and their team’s work on Dense and Green Building Typologies and Singapore’s green building landscape in Kulturplatz .

The Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) programme Kulturplatz, broadcasted on 12 September 2018, featured a half-hour report titled Hochhäuser: Das Leben in der Vertikale (High-Rises: Life in the Vertical) that included FCL’s Dense and Green Building Typologies project and researchers. High-rises experience a boom in times of increasing population densities and land scarcety. “Kulturplatz” asks how one lives in the vertical environment looks to Singapore, where ETH Zurich researches life in the high rise and the future of cities in its Dense and Green Building Typologies research led by Professor Thomas Schroepfer and Professor Sacha Menz. The host also visits photographer and artist Shirana Shabazi who lives on the 25th floor.

The article Haushoch überlegen: Was die Schweiz von Singapur lernen kann (Highly superior: What Switzerland can learn from Singapore) was subsequently published on 18 September covering the content featured in the broadcast.