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Visual complexity of urban streetscapes: human vs computer vision

Understanding visual complexity of urban environments may improve urban design strategies and limit visual pollution due to advertising, road signage, telecommunication systems and machinery. This paper aims at quantifying visual complexity specifically in ...

New York2024

Vers un projet territorial du vivantL'outil des réseaux écologiques comme projet urbanistique de revitalisation du paysage agricole

Marine Françoise Jeannine Villaret

The aim of my thesis is to provide urban architects and planners with working theoretical elements territorial project of the living. The living and the socio-ecological transition are key concepts in the nature and people paradigm, which asserts a human-n ...

EPFL2024

Circularity by stock in Sri Lanka: Economic necessity meets urban fabric renovation

Paolo Tombesi, Milinda Pathiraja

Persistent fiscal and political mismanagement, together with the financial pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, have driven Sri Lanka into a social and economic crisis triggering a decrease in national foreign exchange reserves, an inability to purchase vit ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Quantifying the impacts of urban morphology on modifying microclimate conditions in extreme weather conditions

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Kavan Javanroodi, Vahid Moussavi Nik

It is well-known that the morphology of urban areas modifies the variations of climate variables at microscale; known as microclimate conditions. The complexity of urban morphology can lead to undesired wind conditions or excessive air temperature; particu ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Understanding multimodality through rhythm of life. An empirical evidence from the Swiss case study.

Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy

The car dominance car in the urban transport system may contribute to health and environmental troubles. In recent years, multimodality appears as a central issue for public policies as they try to encourage and develop the modal shift in favour of walking ...

Routledge2020

The Philosophy of Domesticity

Alessandro Porotto

This paper aims to analyze the contribution of German architect Heinrich Tessenow (1876-1950) to domestic architecture through his theoretical writings and housing projects. Firstly, the book Der Wohnhausbau, published in 1909, proposes his housing design ...

2019

Insiders and Outsiders: Comparing Urban Impressions between Population Groups

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani

There is a growing interest in social and urban computing to employ crowdsourcing as means to gather impressions of urban perception for indoor and outdoor environments. Previous studies have established that reliable estimates of urban perception can be o ...

ACM2017

Bioclimatic Design of Sustainable Campuses using Advanced Optimisation Methods

Silvia Coccolo

Cities occupy 0.5% of the earth surface, but they consume 75% of worldwide energy, and they are responsible of 50% to 80% of CO2 emissions. Cities are directly responsible for the climate change. However, they are the key for providing solutions to this pr ...

EPFL2017

A GIS based approach for analysing geological and operation conditions influence on road tunnels degradation

Federica Sandrone, Vincent Labiouse

Adopting effective maintenance strategies for transportation infrastructures requires good prediction of their long-term behaviour. For planning interventions without affecting the entire network’s capacity, tunnels in particular require a good overview of ...

Elsevier2017

Arquitetura escolar: Análise comparativa de operações de reabilitação contemporâneas na região de Lausanne (Vaud, Suíça)

This dissertation examines the renovation of public primary and secondary schools in the Lausanne region (Vaud, Switzerland). It aims to compare these interventions with the aim of identifying common architectural criteria to the renovation strategies adop ...

2016

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