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Peripheral residential developments in Switzerland : Facing carbon neutrality challenge
Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles
The notion of urban sprawl is a central topic of discourses about sustainable city. In Switzerland as in most European countries, many single-family houses are still being built in the farthest peripheries of urban agglomerations. Characterized by low dens ...
2016The Role of Ocean Space in Contemporary Urbanization
Although the ocean is investigated by many scientific fields, research about ocean space is scarce. But energy production, extraction of resources, infrastructural and logistical development is increasing incrementally, resulting in a quantum shift in scal ...
EPFL2015A Large Eddy Simulation to determine the effect of trees on wind and turbulence over a suburban surface
Marc Parlange, Marco Giovanni Giometto, Andreas Christen
A proper modeling of flow and turbulence within and over urban canopies is key to properly predict air pollution and dispersion in cities. Trees are an integral part of the urban landscape. In many suburban neighborhoods, tree cover is 10 to 30% and trees ...
201428.03.2013 - Inès Devanthéry-Lamunière, University of Hong Kong (faculty of architecture)
Inès Devanthéry-Lamunière will discuss built ans research projects wich question the densification of existing contexts, both urban and rural. From city centers, to suburban backgrounds, and rural settings, architecture is facing the idea of modification m ...
2013A fine scale analysis of socio-economic and landscape variables for the assessment of health status in Geneva
Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Joël Chételat, Abram Pointet
Significant differences in health status between inhabitants of different commune types of the Geneva area have recently been established in a study relying on a large health database managed by the Unit of Population Epidemiology of the Hôpitaux Universit ...
2012Changes in Employment Localization and Accessibility
Until about the end of WWII, the territorial organization of the economy could be expressed along a very strong center-periphery gradient, with industries and services concentrated in cities while the countryside supplied agricultural products. Since the i ...
EPFL2011La densification des espaces urbains, une problématique contemporaine interrogée par le logement collectif
The modern and contemporary city has given birth to vast peripheries due to rapid growth. A first glance at these areas reveals that architectural theories and urbanism paradigms encounter each other without fixed rules or regulated planning. Moreover, the ...
EPFL2009The Effects of Building Representation and Clustering in Large-Eddy Simulations of Flows in Urban Canopies
We perform large-eddy simulations of neutral atmospheric boundary-layer flow over a cluster of buildings surrounded by relatively flat terrain. The first investigated question is the effect of the level of building detail that can be included in the numeri ...
2009La ville comme "Stimmungslandschaft"
This thesis analyses the city of Buenos Aires as a lived space in its historical context, based on my childhood memories. It characterizes the specific Stimmung that colours the urban and suburban spaces of Buenos Aires in the XIXth and XXth century. I ach ...
EPFL2007Construire à distance
Through a case study, this research aims at contributing to the historic understanding of the international architecture after the Second World War. It is based on the monographic analysis of the projects realised by the Geneva agency Addor & Julliard in L ...
EPFL2007