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If we assume that architecture is the art of replacing our immediate surroundings, the designed or constructed space has something in common with nature: it assumes the role of something that surrounds us as a whole. Space is something we perceive and sens ...
In late 2007 the ALICE design studio at EPFL was invited by the Swiss government to participate as part of the Swiss exhibition in the Swiss Pavilion in the Giardini in the Venice Architecture Biennale 2008. The exhibition was to expose research and teachi ...
Début juillet 2011 un groupe de 12 étudiants en architecture et urbanisme de quatre écoles de renommée internationale (Ecole de la Cambre d’architecture de Bruxelles, Ecole de paysage et d’environnement de Montréal, Ecole spéciale d’architecture de Paris e ...
This dissertation collects three essays on the hedonic modelling of housing prices, location attributes and environmental amenities – or lack thereof. The first essay applies spatial econometric techniques to measure the impact of airport noise on the pric ...
We apply the hedonic model to the rental markets of the Geneva and Zurich urban areas, Switzerland, in order to assess the value of natural land uses and land use diversity. In order to construct variables to quantify land uses and patterns in the neighbou ...
The Geneva and Zurich housing markets are characterised by high proportions of foreigners and a large share of rental housing. This provides ideal conditions for testing whether foreigners pay more for the same quality of housing than Swiss households and ...
Zurich II, située dans la vallée du Glatt et considérée comme faisant partie de la périphérie zurichoise, sustente la capitale économique suisse. Son paysage urbain est formé par la croissance non planifiée de deux arrondissements de la ville de Zurich ain ...
Environmental, social and economic concerns linked to the sustainable development of the built-up environment are increasingly calling into question models of territorial development based on urban sprawl. This is because the process of dispersed urbanizat ...
Séduction new-yorkaise, ville européenne. Tantôt adulée tantôt honnie, la ville haute, “les tours”, porte en elle les sentiments les plus exacerbés. Sur le paquebot du retour d'Amérique, les modernistes ont eu le temps de raffiner la nouvelle utopie. Le dé ...
As research in building energy demand simulation is reaching maturity, there is now a growing interest in the evaluation of the energy need of larger and/or pre-existing urban areas [1, 2, 3], to evaluate the energy performance associated with alternative ...