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Roma, machina analoga: Practices of montage amidst visions, ruins, and reconstructions

For artists and poets, the ‘Roman walk’ was a sublime experience, where the emulation of ancient splendour produced an inner catharsis. Meanwhile, for architects it became fertile territory for the imagination, where the accumulation of layers and objects ...

Silvana2023

Transit-Oriented Development sans développement ? Les mobilités actives et l’espace ouvert comme leviers pour développer l’accessibilité des espaces ruro-urbains autour du rail.

Devenu centrale dans la théorie comme dans la pratique, le modèle du TOD (Transit-Oriented Development) soutient une relation linéaire et normative entre densification des périmètres autour des gares, augmentation de l’accessibilité par le transport en com ...

RIU2023

Optimisation du confort de l'usager par la certification WELL: projet de rénovation du bâtiment de la Miséricorde de l’UNIFR

Si l’influence croissante des certifications dans le domaine de la construction amène à des choix plus réfléchis au niveau constructif, celles-ci ont aussi un impact direct sur le bien-être et le confort des occupants. Selon les précédentes recherches prés ...

2023

Genuinely distributed Byzantine machine learning

Rachid Guerraoui, El Mahdi El Mhamdi, Le Nguyen Hoang, Sébastien Louis Alexandre Rouault, Arsany Hany Abdelmessih Guirguis

Machine learning (ML) solutions are nowadays distributed, according to the so-called server/worker architecture. One server holds the model parameters while several workers train the model. Clearly, such architecture is prone to various types of component ...

2022

Reflecting on his 1972 film ROMA, Federico Fellini spoke of the city of Rome as the most wonderful movie set in the world. Deriving from the character of the city itself, the movie is indeed an assemblage of wishes, dreams, visions and memories that are co ...

2021

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Ancient Romans called urbs the set of buildings and infrastructures, and civitas the Roman citizens. Today instead, while the society is surfing the digital tsunami, urbs and civitas tend to become much closer, almost merging, that we might attempt to cond ...

2021

Genuinely Distributed Byzantine Machine Learning

Rachid Guerraoui, El Mahdi El Mhamdi, Le Nguyen Hoang, Sébastien Louis Alexandre Rouault, Arsany Hany Abdelmessih Guirguis

Machine Learning (ML) solutions are nowadays distributed, according to the so-called server/worker architecture. One server holds the model parameters while several workers train the model. Clearly, such architecture is prone to various types of component ...

Association for Computing Machinery2020

This PhD thesis explores the way multiple and tenuous links connect collective memory and space in the contemporary city. It does so through a field enquiry carried out in Rome, Italy. This palimpsest-city has a particular relationship to the past, which c ...

EPFL2020

Régénérer les territoires urbains

Dans un contexte caractérisé par la recherche d'alternative à la poursuite de l'étalement urbain, les friches représentent un potentiel particulièrement intéressant de surfaces à reconquérir au coeur des territoires urbains. Souvent situées à des emplaceme ...

Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes2015

Roman concrete was used as building material during Roman Imperial times for a great number of famous constructions with different functions. Well-known examples are aqueducts, for example the Pont du Gard in France and the Aqua Alexandrina in Rome, and nu ...

Mineralogical Society of America2013

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