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Building occupants in the spotlight

Marilyne Andersen

Daylighting brings together questions relevant to architectural design and building engineering, but also to human physiology and behaviour. This magazine article presents a shortened version of a more comprehensive scientific paper published in the Fifty ...

2015

Images des microcosmes flottants

Olivier Nicolas Meystre

This research focuses on the premise that depiction is quintessential to the conception of an architectural project. The representation also provides insights regarding how the architects design the architecture. This thesis is intended towards understandi ...

EPFL2015

Unweaving the human response in daylighting design

Marilyne Andersen

Daylighting as a research topic situates itself at the interface between psycho-physiological and environmental factors, bringing together questions relevant to architectural design and building engineering, but also to human physiology and behavior. While ...

Elsevier2015

A Primal-dual Framework For Mixtures Of Regularisers

Volkan Cevher, Cosimo Aprile, Quoc Tran Dinh, Luca Baldassarre, Baran Gözcü

Effectively solving many inverse problems in engineering requires to leverage all possible prior information about the structure of the signal to be estimated. This often leads to tackling constrained optimization problems with mixtures of regularizers. Pr ...

2015

BIM de la Tour Bel-Air, Lausanne

Bernard Nicolas Cherix

Presentation of the BIM produced for the renovation of the first skyscraper of Switzerland built in 1930 by Alphonse Laverrière. The project of the renovation was done by CCHE Architecture (Ehrensperger, Steiner, Cherix et al.). First, a digital model was ...

2015

Flânerie in the alternative cultural spaces of Lisbon

Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

Lisbon is a city of labyrinthine paths, due mostly to its irregular territory. The experiment of Flânerie in is explored in this paper through the identification of particular paths linked to the contemporary alternative cultural life, a debate being under ...

2015

Transforming architectures inspired by origami

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis

Paper folding is found across cultures for both aesthetic and functional purposes, with its most widely recognized exponent being the ancient art form of origami. More recently, there has been an upsurge of interest for translating origami designs into mat ...

2015

Architecture Without Content 11: Roman Architecture

Dries Rodet, Giovanni Alessandro Piovene Porto Godi, Kersten Geers, Andrea Zanderigo, Jelena Pancevac

This book presents the first part of an investigation in the possibility of a universal territorial architecture with a radically simple materiality. Essentially, our contemporary iteration of the Roman project is a negotiation of the European territory th ...

2015

The Stochastic Time-Constrained Net Present Value Problem

Daniel Kuhn, Wolfram Wiesemann

The successful management of capital-intensive development and engineering projects requires a careful timing of the involved cash in- and outflows. To this end, the project management literature proposes to schedule the project activities so as to maximiz ...

Springer International Publishing2015

Wave propagation in periodic buckled beams

Florian Paul Robert Maurin

Folding of the earth's crust, wrinkling of the skin, rippling of fruits, vegetables and leaves are all examples of natural structures that can have periodic buckling. Periodic buckling is also present in engineering structures such as compressed lattices, ...

EPFL2015