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Assimilation of snow depth data from Sentinel-1 to improve the hydrological model of the Borgne catchment (VS)

Since 2013, Crealp (Centre de Recherche sur l’Environnement Alpin) is operating a realtime flood forecasting system for the upper Rhone river basin. The scarcity of meteorological input data at high elevation leads to model uncertainties. In this project, ...
2021

Typological Problems of Housing in Vienna and Frankfurt

Alessandro Porotto

The purpose of this paper is to consider a number of valuable architectural accomplishments from the beginning of the XX century, built in Vienna (1919-1933) and Frankfurt am Main (1925-1931), by means of Aldo Rossi’s theoretical thought and analytical app ...
Il Poligrafo2020

L'intelligence des formes: Le projet de logements collectifs à Vienne et Francfort

Alessandro Porotto

Les expériences de politique urbaine menées à Vienne et à Francfort dans l’entre-deux-guerres – Das rote Wien et Das neue Frankfurt  – constituent aujourd’hui encore des références incontournables dans l’histoire du logement collectif en Europe. Les modèle ...
MētisPresses2019

GIEDION GOES TO STOCKHOLM. A look at Swedish efforts in the social and housing question

Chiara Monterumisi

The journeys throughout Europe for attesting the state of contemporary architecture brought the great passionate promoter of the Modern Movement, Sigfried Giedion, also to Stockholm. One month after the opening of the 1930 Stockholm exhibition, generally c ...
2019

Typological problems of housing in Vienna and Frankfurt

Alessandro Porotto

The purpose of this paper is to consider a number of valuable architectural accomplishments from the beginning of the XX century, built in Vienna (1919-1933) and Frankfurt am Main (1925-1931), by means of Aldo Rossi’s theoretical thought and analytical app ...
2018

Logement de masse

Alessandro Porotto

This research has investigated the urban policies about mass housing at the beginning of 20th century. This was a unifying and crucial issue of several modern experiences to which many European cities developed adequate answers showing a wide range of dist ...
EPFL2018

Utopia and Vision. Learning from Vienna and Frankfurt

Alessandro Porotto

The article identifies and observes critically two emblematic cases of modern utopia of 1920s: Das rote Wien and Das neue Frankfurt. These two architectural experiences correspond to two alternative but complementary spatial and social models, the courtyar ...
2016

Urbanity and Construction of the City

Alessandro Porotto

Urbanity is a real quality of an urban place. This concept means that the urbanity is inextricably related to the architecture of a place, the architecture of the city. The presence of the built environment is the first essential condition for the developm ...
2015

A Cost-Effective Method for the Detection of Queue Lengths at Traffic Lights

Currently, the comparatively young floating car technology is mostly used to get information about travel times which however are more attractive to navigation and route guidance. Concerning traffic management applications such as traffic light control, it ...
Springer2010

The impact of Improved School Design on the Academic Achievement of Students in the Palestinian Territories : an Empirical Study

Yves Pedrazzini

Report for the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Palestinian Territories, Funded by KfW, Frankfurt, Germany. The work was realized in Association with the Swiss NGO "Colloquia". ...
2009

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