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VPS is a Zurich-based office for architecture. The practice operates at the intersection of design, structure, economy, climate, and energy, developing architecture through close interdisciplinary collaboration and precise spatial thinking. VPS seeks to establish architecture as an integrative process in which typology, construction, environmental performance, and economic logic are considered simultaneously rather than sequentially.
TEAM
Florian von Planta, MSc Arch ETH SIA
Vinzenz Leuppi, MSc Arch ETH SIA
Ansgar Stadler, MSc Arch ETH SIA
INDEX PROJECTTYPECATEGORYYEAR
2606RE:MIX
Visitor CenterCompetition – 1. PRIZE20262602THEATHER OF THERMO.
Winter School
Academic2026
2512BEYOND THE HORIZON
MuseumStudy20252505INVERTED SAUNASaunaPrivate2025 - ongoing2503CROQUE MADAMESchoolCompetition20252301REPOWERING ArticleWriting20252408SOLAR LABORATORYSummer SchoolAcademic20242401LE LOCLEHousingPrivate20242308 SOLAR GRILL PROTOTYPEInstallationResidency20232107FEIERABENDSTRASSEHousingPrivate202323068400+InfrastrctureStudy2023
2303APPROACHABLE BUNKERArt StorageStudy20232106NACLInstallationAcademic20212102PARTICLE ANIMATORInstallationAcademic2021
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INVERTED SAUNAThe sauna is a cyclical ritual of heating and cooling the body—a controlled sequence of thermal exposure that activates the body's thermoregulatory mechanisms. The Inverted Sauna is conceived entirely around this sequence. Every architectural element serves the body's changing physiological state, guiding the transition between warmth and cold. Therefore, the project consists of two constructed spaces: a heating room and a cooling room. The architecture emerges directly from these climatic conditions, with every element conceived as a device that produces, maintains, and intensifies the thermal environment.
with David Eckert