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Exploring High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Architectures for Edge AI-Enabled Applications

The desire and ability to place AI-enabled applications on the edge has grown significantly in recent years. However, the compute-, area-, and power-constrained nature of edge devices are stressed by the needs of the AI-enabled applications, due to a gener ...

EPFL2024

Sketches

Pier Vittorio Aureli

I draw by hand, but I don’t like free-hand sketching. Of course, when designing, it is inevitable to make sketches, especially when collaborating with someone. A quick sketch remains the most efficient way to communicate to others early ideas or observatio ...

2023

Robotic Assembly of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures: From Computational Design to Automated Construction

Nicolas Henry Pierre Louis Rogeau

The digitization of timber construction, the emergence of engineered wood products, and the urgent need to drastically reduce buildings' environmental impact have given a rebirth to wood as a construction material. On the one hand, increasing the use of ti ...

EPFL2023

(from) the repertoire : an architectural theory of operations.Oral and embodied knowledge in architectural and spatial practices.

Julien Lafontaine Carboni

How can one construct spatial histories and architectural theories from gestures, words and voices, bodies and minor threads? This research delves into oral and embodied architectural and spatial knowledge as modes of producing buildings, spaces and spatia ...

EPFL2022

Houses take on housing blocks. Marshall Plan’s cooperative housing for ‘free labor'

Sila Karatas

This presentation argues that strategical activity and discourse of the Marshall Plan indoctrinated ‘democracy, cooperation and freedom’ and instrumentalized this discourse in union-founded workers’ housing cooperatives as a means of setting the bottom-up ...

2022

Architecture / Philosophy: how, why, and what the questions seek in three case-studies from the late 20th century

André Patrão Neves De Frias Martins

Architecture and philosophy are no strangers to one another. In philosophical writings, architecture appears referred to, spoken of, described, defined, categorized, and figuratively used. In architectural discourse, by theoreticians and practitioners alik ...

EPFL2020

The Philosophy of Domesticity

Alessandro Porotto

This paper aims to analyze the contribution of German architect Heinrich Tessenow (1876-1950) to domestic architecture through his theoretical writings and housing projects. Firstly, the book Der Wohnhausbau, published in 1909, proposes his housing design ...

2019

Data-Interpretation Methodologies for Practical Asset-Management

Ian Smith, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai

Monitoring and interpreting structural response using structural-identification methodologies improves understanding of civil-infrastructure behavior. New sensing devices and inexpensive computation has made model-based data interpretation feasible in engi ...

2019

Architectural Design Strategies for Building-Integrated Photovoltaics in residential building renovation processes

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

Tomorrow's European cities are already largely built, as much of the existing building stock ¿ with a low level of energy performance ¿ will still be standing in 2050. Urban renewal processes therefore play an essential role towards their sustainable trans ...

EPFL2019

(Architecture's) power and the (Arnhem) panopticon: from Foucault's description to Koolhaas' appropriation and reply

André Patrão Neves De Frias Martins

There is an abundance of cases – architectural and philosophical, and especially post-modern; by academics, practitioners, and critics – in which a relation between architecture and philosophy is at work, with one engaging the other directly, or simply in ...

2018

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