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Seismic retrofit of cultural heritage buildings – when less is more

Katrin Beyer, Francesco Vanin, Michele Godio, Andrea Penna

In 1356, Basel was subjected to an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 6.6; it is the largest known historical earthquake in central northern Europe. During this earthquake and the fire that followed large parts of Basel were destroyed. Such an event ...

2017

Seismic vulnerability assessment of “Sion cathedral” (Switzerland): an integrated approach to detect and evaluate local collapse mechanisms in heritage buildings

Pierino Lestuzzi, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Lorenzo Diana

Seismic assessment of existing heritage buildings remains a challenging task. There is a high level of complexity and uncertainty compared with the assessment of standard buildings. Heritage masonry churches are usually prone to partial collapses during ea ...

2017

Navigating through 200 years of historical newspapers

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Yannick Rochat, Vincent Christian Buntinx, Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet

This paper aims to describe and explain the processes behind the creation of a digital library composed of two Swiss newspapers, namely Gazette de Lausanne (1798-1998) and Journal de Genève (1826-1998), covering an almost two-century period. We developed a ...

2016

Composition profane

Marco Ievoli, Sophie Didisheim

Dans une ville où les places d'accueil pour migrants manquent et où les églises sont de moins en moins fréquentées, Composition profane propose d'installer des places d'hébergements au sein d'édifices religieux. Au-delà de l'héritage de l'hospitalité de l' ...

2016

Rethinking the house form in poor areas

Joana Rosa Ferreira Leite dos Santos Aleixo

Studying housing requires a multidisciplinary approach in order to come up with comprehensive solutions for physical, social and cultural needs. This thesis intends to bring those needs into the process of creating the house, by proposing a methodology to ...

EPFL2016

Avant la vague. Architecture mobile entre terre et mer

Elena Chiavi

«La construction fragile, contrairement à ce que son nom peut nous laisser penser est faite pour durer.» [smiljan radic]; Avant la vague est un acte architectural. Il célèbre un moment précis dans le temps. L'infrastructure proposée, à caractère éphèmère e ...

2016

Venice Lessons

Suspended in the struggle between sea and soil, Venice is an ambiguous land where human traces cannot survive without cyclical preservation efforts and continual compromise. Its story has often been told through vedute and capricci, paintings that conceptu ...

PARK BOOKS2016

Image Based Relighting of Cultural Artifacts

Niranjan Thanikachalam

By incorporating computational methods into the image acquisition pipeline, computational photography has opened up new avenues in the representation and visualization of real world objects in the digital world. For example, we can sample a scene under a f ...

EPFL2016

2D meso-scale modeling of masonry elements using cohesive elements

Jean-François Molinari, Katrin Beyer, Nicolas Richart, Shenghan Zhang, Seyedeh Mohadeseh Taheri Mousavi

Many stone masonry structures that were constructed in the past centuries are now counted towards the cultural heritage. The low strength and brittle behavior make these heterogeneous structures very vulnerable to various natural or man-made disasters such ...

2016

Diachronic Evaluation of NER Systems on Old Newspapers

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Yannick Rochat, Giovanni Colavizza

In recent years, many cultural institutions have engaged in large-scale newspaper digitization projects and large amounts of historical texts are being acquired (via transcription or OCRization). Beyond document preservation, the next step consists in prov ...

Bochumer Linguistische Arbeitsberichte2016

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