Vertical Social Condensers and“Fantastic” Waterfronts in Rijeka, Croatia: Architectural Design Studioat Politecnico di Milano

For the second consecutive year, the Architectural Design Studiowas organized as an international collaborative class with theInstitute of Architecture Technology at the Technical UniversityGraz (TUG), with the participation of the teachers Marisol Vidaland Martin Boleš. Students and teachers from PoliMI and TUGoperated in the parallel Design Studios of the respective Mastersin Architecture. The collaboration fostered a fruitful interchangeof discussions among the students to elaborate their on-siteanalysis and design. Overall, this collaboration helped to sharedifferent teaching approaches between PoliMI and TUG towards amore international exchange of pedagogical methods. In addition,the enrolled students were mainly international, coming frommore than 20 different countries, bringing their cultural andeducational backgrounds for engaging discussion and designproposals.