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Ines Lamuniere will exemplify the attitude of dl-a, / Devanthery & Lamuniere, in architecture by two of their most recent projects for city centers in Switzerland. The Opera House in Lausanne, the national TV Tower in Geneva and other projects still in des ...
This paper is based on an interdisciplinary study – mixing sociology, anthropology, urban planning and architecture - of 40 years of urban struggles in a small neighborhood of Geneva called Les Grottes. In the 70’s, Les Grottes was the place of birth of Ge ...
The aim of this project was to investigate and quantify the impact of certain early design decisions on the solar potential of a target building placed in an urban context. This was done through a parametric study based on the successive variation of speci ...
Inès Devanthéry-Lamunière will discuss built ans research projects wich question the densification of existing contexts, both urban and rural. From city centers, to suburban backgrounds, and rural settings, architecture is facing the idea of modification m ...
During the last few decades, environmental impact of the fossil fuel-based transportation infrastructure has led to renewed interest in electric transportation infrastructure, especially in urban public mass-transportation sector. Generally, electric buses ...
Within a context of a social and economic crisis, the city of Lisbon is shyly starting to thrill with desire for change. Several socio-cultural spaces, with different degrees of autonomy from the state and the market forces, are having in fact an important ...
Due to its drastic development and evolution from a unique urban model to a new form of an “African City”, Africa's capital city Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was presented as an exemplary city pointing out issues evolving from rapid urbanization and the implemen ...
For the past century, the urban underground has been developed piecemeal rather than as the object of a long-term planning effort. There is a growing awareness by urban planners and engineers that the underground contains not only potential usable space, b ...
After having for long time been neglected by social anthropologists, cities are nowadays central in numerous researches, and more particularly in the field of migration and transnational mobility. However, studies of the impact of migrants on cities themse ...
This poster exposes the outline of the PhD research project of the main author (E. Nault), which focusses on improving the solar potential of neighborhoods at the early design phase and through an interactive design support methodology. ...
