Workshop led by Valentin Calame (studio chaos) and Lola Jutzeler

In collaboration with PMF-System

Students: Laudine Boillat, Sarah Even, Eva De Almeida Ruiz, Daniel Pereira

No-Stop Apartment was part of a line of inquiry in which furniture was no longer understood merely as a matter of interior arrangement, but instead became a true generator of space. In the context of reclaiming industrial, open, and indeterminate spaces, architecture was no longer defined solely by the construction of walls, but by the introduction of systems, objects, and devices capable of organizing uses and activities.

This workshop was developed in collaboration with PMF-System around an innovative assembly system that allows the completely free creation of structures. This invention was designed to enable the rapid and intuitive mounting, dismantling, and assembly of tubular structures. The assembly technique is integrated into a family of joints and components developed by PMF-System, whose aim is to facilitate the design and implementation of frames intended for all types of furniture.

The project echoed No-Stop City, which proposed a continuous and non-hierarchical vision of space, where boundaries disappeared in favor of a homogeneous grid activated by flows and equipment. At the domestic scale, this logic translated into a spatial continuity in which furniture became infrastructure. We also questioned the capacity of furniture and domestic devices to produce space by working through compactness, repetition, and the intensification of uses.

Thus, No-Stop Apartment proposed an exploration of a continuous, evolving, and non-fixed form of habitation, where furniture alternately became structure, threshold, and territory. More than a simple furnishing element, it constituted an architecture in itself, capable of transforming a raw space into an inhabited landscape.