Clara is an architect-researcher investigating how Alpine and rural territories are reshaped by tourism, depopulation, and climate transition. Her work combines field research, community engagement, and design practice — through workshops, mapping, archival research, and tactical interventions — across Switzerland, Australia, the United States, and beyond.

Originally from Switzerland, she holds an M.Sc in Architecture from ETH Zürich, where her master's thesis under Prof. Momoyo Kaijima and Prof. Philip Ursprung investigated rural tourism in the Verzasca valley, proposing the reactivation of the abandoned hamlet of Cortascio through tactical renovation and engagement with local crafts and communities.

In 2023, she conducted Highlighting Hinterlands, an independent research project funded by Pro Helvetia, exploring rural abandonment and reactivation opportunities in the towns and hinterlands of Victoria, Australia.

She has practiced as an architect at OverUnder in Boston, on urban design guidelines and public infrastructure projects, and currently as urban planner and architect at Atelier Corso (formerly Van de Wetering) in Zürich, where she contributes to regional development projects in Switzerland — from village centers in Aargau to train-station strategies for the Rhätische Bahn.

In parallel, she develops Terri-Tour as a platform for territorial investigations, and Localiti — a co-created cartography of vernacular heritage piloted in the Verzasca valley in 2025. Her ongoing project, the Laboratorio del Patrimonio Culturale, conducted in collaboration with the Museum Verzasca, explores how local communities envision the future of vernacular infrastructures of transhumance through workshops and an itinerant exhibition.