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Teaching Circular Architecture On-site

Nicolas Henry Pierre Louis Rogeau, Camille Lucie Elisabeth Fauvel

The Land of a Thousand Dances is an interdisciplinary one-week workshop for architecture, civil engineering, and environmental sciences students at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The course proposes to study design through maintenance, by ...

2023

‘Monsieur, I have a wife and child, a house and a garden, et alors?’

Sila Karatas

Marshall Plan, officially operated from 1948 to 1952 for reconstruction and development in Europe and non-European countries such as Turkey and Switzerland, marks the Cold War economy-political and foreign policy of the US. Referred by its bureaucrats as “ ...

2023

Tranquil Vertical Bathhouse in Hong Kong

Tongxin Li

The title of the project is From “Hortus Conclusus” to Tranquility Space in the City. By taking inspiration from the form, materials, and elements of medieval monasteries, the aim is to explore how to create physical and spiritual spaces of tranquility in ...

2023

An unnatural exception. Profile: Piet Oudolf

Christophe van Gerrewey

A garden by Piet Oudolf confronts you in an intellectual way with the complexity of the world, as an antidote to uniformity and repetition. ...

2022

A ‘common garden’ to understand and predict effects of glacier shrinkage of microbial life in high-mountain streams

Tom Ian Battin, Hannes Markus Peter, Susheel Bhanu Busi, Grégoire Marie Octave Edouard Michoud, Leïla Ezzat, Tyler Joe Kohler, Jade Brandani, Stylianos Fodelianakis, Paraskevi Pramateftaki

In alpine regions worldwide, climate change has induced unprecedented glacier shrinkage, and various stream ecosystems draining glacierized catchments are experiencing profound environmental changes. However, how microbial life in these streams will be aff ...

2022

A Large, Finite Permutation of Specific, Discrete Variants: Dan Graham's Children's Pavilion at Chambres d'Amis (1986)

Christophe van Gerrewey

In 1986, Dan Graham participated in Chambres d'Amis in Ghent, Belgium, curated by Jan Hoet as an art exhibition outside of the museum, in individual houses. With the help of a local architect, Graham constructed a glass and steel pavilion in a private gard ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2021

Phenotypic plasticity versus ecotypic differentiation under recurrent summer drought in two drought-tolerant pine species

Christoph Bachofen

Despite worldwide reports of high tree mortality, growing evidence indicates that many tree species are well adapted to survive repeated dry spells. The drought resilience of trees is related to their phenotypic plasticity and ecotypic differentiation. Whe ...

WILEY2021

Activities, Housing Situation and Other Factors Influencing Psychological Strain Experienced During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Switzerland

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Anna Pagani, Garance Clément, Livia Bianca Fritz, Ralph Hansmann

Background: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis and the corresponding first nationwide lockdown from mid-March to 10 May 2020 engendered considerable psychological strain among people in Switzerland. This study analyzes determinants of changes i ...

2021

Trellises of Molecular Oxygen on Anatase TiO2(101)

Klaus Kern, Christian Alexander Stephan Dette, Feliciano Giustino, Shai Mangel

The adsorption of molecular oxygen has important implications for the catalytic activity of oxide surfaces, especially for oxidative TiO2 catalysts. In the case of anatase TiO2(101), several studies have noted the importance of surface defects which stabil ...

2019

Impact Assessment of Pesticides Applied in Vegetable-Producing Areas in the Saharan Zone

Edouard René Gilbert Lehmann

The present thesis aimed at characterizing the extent of the pesticide contamination and resulting impacts on the environment and the human health in market garden-ing areas in Burkina Faso. Analytical procedures were developed and validated for multi-clas ...

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