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Embodied Carbon Premium for Cantilevers
David Michael Volpe Ruggiero, Paola Costanza Miglietta
This study addresses the critical need for sustainable architectural designs within the context of climate change and the significant role the built environment plays in greenhouse gas emissions. The focus of this paper is on understanding the influence of ...
2024Is Green A Good Color For A House?Typological Transfer And The LOG ID Experiment
Tiago André Pratas Borges, Anja Fröhlich
Architecture is a prospective discipline. In other words, the practice of architecture traditionally explores design methods in which a particular solution is speculated upon, in order to answer a particular set of questions. These solutions tend to be org ...
2024High-frequency response of a hemispherical grounding electrode
Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga
The lightning discharge current is characterized by a high-frequency spectrum extending from DC to about 10 MHz. The calculation of the grounding impedance is one of the most important aspects of designing lightning protection systems. The search for analy ...
2024Parcours de mémoire: découverte d’un port ostracisé à l’architecture hybride
L’île de Léros en Grèce abrite le plus grand port naturel méditerranéen. Son potentiel militaire attire l’intérêt des fascistes italiens qui l’occupent entre 1912 et 1943, conduisant à des changements radicaux au niveau urbain et architectural. Le rational ...
2023Preserving suspended structures with light façades (1960-1980).Architectural study and retrofitting proposals
Nowadays, the energy efficiency of the existing building stock is internationally accepted as a topical issue. Energy retrofitting is encouraged, improving the thermal performances of buildings, but often altering the historical image of our cities. Attent ...
EPFL2023So What? Leon Battista Alberti and the Invention of the Architectural Project
The essay focuses on the way Leon Battista Alberti conceptualized the architectural project by investigating all the aspects of his work from theory to practice. The article attempts a global reading of the Albertian project giving emphasis on its social a ...
2023The Fifth Typology
Conception, organization and introduction Rafael Moneo once said that to talk about type in architecture is to talk about the essence of architecture. Indeed, when conceiving architecture is almost impossible to not start from an existing type, no matter h ...
2023Drawing in Architecture Education and Research
Lucerne Talks, Symposium on Pedagogy in Architecture, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art, Switzerland ...
Park Books2023Patronage as Collaboration. Dante Bini’s Villas in Sardinia
In 1970 on the rugged coast of Costa Paradiso on the Italian island of Sardinia, the encounter between one of the most renowned Italian film directors, Michelangelo Antonioni, and an architect with an engineering vision, Dante Bini, produced a holiday vill ...
2023Reuse of Load-Bearing Timber Elements - Case Study of a Lookout Tower in Lausanne, Switzerland
Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jonas Warmuth, Julius Natterer, Edisson Xavier Estrella Arcos, Benoît Pascal Kälin
The construction industry is jeopardizing Earth’s environment; current mitigation efforts do not suffice; and additional sustainable strategies are required. One such strategy consists of reusing structural building elements over multiple service lives. In ...
Curran Associates, Inc.2023