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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 ...
EPFL2024Making Market Halls: Urban and Food Regeneration in Fribourg
Cities have been shaped by the exchange of food goods. The market hall was the building where the market took place as a social and economic activity. Their slow disappearance in the 20th Century was mostly due to a shift in consumption pattern as well as ...
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EPFL <> SISB2022Watershed
Dieter Dietz, Ruben Alberto Valdez Juarez, Malcolm Aladé Nadjib Onifadé
WaterShed is an urban structure that takes advantage of usable rainwater to cool ambient air in pedestrian areas, publics spaces and transportation hubs. The system addresses pedestrian thermal comfort in conditions of heatwave, which can be life threateni ...
2022Pedestrian typologies - nuanced considerations of urban walking
Vincent Kaufmann, Renate Albrecher
The analyses of urban environments, norms, micro-census and scientific studies reveal a variety of myths about pedestrians. One of them is the dominant representation of the pedestrian: A single person, usually with healthy body and in leisure mode. Pedest ...
2022"A Walk of Art". Promenade muséale pour la collection de la Tate (Londres, GB)
Au Royaume-Uni depuis 2001, l’accès au musée est gratuit, mais population se rendant dans les institutions s’est très peu diversifiée. De plus, les expositions temporaires sont quant à elles tarifées, et souvent chères. Le but de A Walk of Art est de mettr ...
2020Future Urban Charging Solutions for Electric Vehicles
Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Vincent Moreau, François Richard Vuille, Dominic Villeneuve
The numbers of electric vehicles (EV) will increase as many countries perceive EVs as a solution to reduce the emissions of transportation and therefore incentivize their adoption. However, the deployment of public charging infrastructure is lagging behind ...
2020Espace public comme objet per se? Une analyse critique de la conception contemporaine
The recognition during the second half of the 20th century of the essential role played by public spaces in the definition of qualitative urban life has led to a reconsideration of their design. This has occurred in many different forms, such as the emerge ...
EPFL2018L'événement proxémique : étude des relations de circulation entre piétons aux heures de pointe à Delhi, Los Angeles, Paris et Tokyo
In a context of traffic networks saturation related to urbanisation acceleration, this research is aimed at contributing to the scientific debate on this issue by building a model to describe dynamic pedestriansâ physical distances regulation behaviours ...
EPFL2018Incremental Urbanism: A study of incremental housing production and the challenge of its inclusion in contemporary planning processes in Mumbai, India
Whilst urbanisation reached an unprecedented dimension, in a not so distant future half of the urban population will live in `informal¿ settlements. Often subsumed under the pejorative term slum, these habitats account for the majority of the future urban ...
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