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Anonymous Architecture: Silent Heritage in continuous and irreversible transformation
An impressive number of buildings on our planet were not designed by architects, and therefore can neither be included within the categories of art history, nor found in treaties and construction manuals. Their permanent character is not traceable in their ...
2024Valuing the existing. Defining a procedure for a low-impact renovation; a case study on a typical apartment building built in the 1960’s in Geneva
Shifting “From Eco-anxiety to deep adaptation” has been the driving force behind the project “Valuing the existing”. This work focuses on understanding the nature of architecture in a future where there is less pollution and less harm caused by the constru ...
2023Innovations Practitioners Need for Circularity in the Swiss Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Sector
Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf
Although widely recognized as imperative for reducing global emissions and the amount of waste generated by the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector, a large-scale shift from a linear to a circular economy has not yet happened in practi ...
2023(In)visible reuse: Retrofit and refurbishment practices in the home
The construction sector is the world's largest consumer of raw materials, and emissions from housing and construction contribute to approximately 40% of all annual global carbon dioxide emissions. With cities racing to meet their climate targets, there is ...
2023Reuse of concrete components in new construction projects: Critical review of 77 circular precedents
Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Célia Marine Küpfer
Extracting pieces of concrete from obsolete buildings and reusing them, as is, in new assemblies is today rarely considered a strategy for improving the sustainability of the construction sector. By delaying the crushing of concrete into aggregates and avo ...
2023South Sudan - Building Resources & Shelter Practices
Edisson Xavier Estrella Arcos, André Ullal
Seasonal floods are a common and extended problem across several regions in South Sudan, causing considerable damage to houses, crops, and livelihoods. In this context, new housing and shelter solutions, besides being flood resilient, should take into acco ...
2022Cockroach: an open-source tool for point cloud processing in cad
Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Petras Vestartas, Andrea Settimi
In the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector, the use of point cloud data is not a novelty. Usually employed to retrieve data for inspecting construction sites or retrofitting pre-existing buildings, sensors like LiDAR cameras have been k ...
Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)2022BLOOM: Bimodal Lattice One-out-of-Many Proofs and Applications
We give a construction of an efficient one-out-of-many proof system, in which a prover shows that he knows the pre-image for one element in a set, based on the hardness of lattice problems. The construction employs the recent zero-knowledge framework of Ly ...
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022Co-Creation Lab Housing and Construction. Proposal "Transforming the construction sector"
Presentation of the co-creation lab project, designed to help the cement and concrete sector transition towards sustainable construction. ...
2021Decision Framework to Balance Environmental, Technical, Logistical, and Economic Criteria When Designing Structures With Reused Components
Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Célia Marine Küpfer, Numa Joy Bertola, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting
The reuse of structural components in new buildings has great potential to reduce the environmental impacts of the construction sector but remains uncommon practice. An obstacle to its wider implementation is the lack of robust assessment methods and decis ...
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