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Sustainable landscape architecture

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Imagining the Dutch polder landscape. A design by OMA from 1986

In 1986, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) / Rem Koolhaas created a landscape design for the Haarlemmermeerpolder, located between Amsterdam, Leiden, and Haarlem. They were invited by urbanists and planners wanting to denounce the urban policy ...

2015

Active House: new buildings for sustainable architecture

Arianna Brambilla

Buildings consume more than 40% of all the energy we use, and about 50% of it is used for the conditioning systems, for this reason it is important to work on the energy demand, improving the buildings behaviour, in order to save the environment of the fut ...

2013

Impact of Hydropeaking on Fish and their Habitat

Émilie Person

High-head storage hydropower plants are an important renewable source of energy in alpine areas. Kinetic energy released from water, which is stored in reservoir and diverted through turbines, produces electricity. During daily peaks of energy demand, the ...

EPFL2013

Impact of hydropeaking on fish and their habitat

Émilie Person

EPFL - LCH2013

IDEAS - Integrated Design, Architecture and Sustainability

Marilyne Andersen, Sophie Lufkin, Maria Gracia Riera Perez, Émilie Nault

The axis "Integrated Design Architecture and Sustainability" (IDEAS) is a joint initiative of both the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID) and Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) of the School of ...

2012

A fine scale analysis of socio-economic and landscape variables for the assessment of health status in Geneva

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Joël Chételat, Abram Pointet

Significant differences in health status between inhabitants of different commune types of the Geneva area have recently been established in a study relying on a large health database managed by the Unit of Population Epidemiology of the Hôpitaux Universit ...

2012

NOMAD - Network of Optimization Modalities in Architectural Design

Marilyne Andersen, Boris Clément Karamata, Loïc Vivien Fumeaux, Dan-Alexis Bolomey

Two pairs of identical experimentation modules are being developed within the framework of a collaborative initiative named NOMAD – Network of Optimization Modalities in Architectural Design - between the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integra ...

2011

Superstudio

Roberto Gargiani, Beatrice Lampariello

La prima monografia completa di una delle più celebri avanguardie dell’Architettura Radicale. 1966, nasce a Firenze Superstudio. Il gruppo, formato da giovani laureati, si distingue subito nell’ambito delle neo-avanguardie europee e raggiunge un riconoscim ...

Editori Laterza2010

Architectural education for sustainable design - A proposal for improving indoor environment quality

Claude-Alain Roulet

Buildings should be comfortable and healthy. They are a shelter for their occupants and should not be a source of problems. The architect widely influences the indoor environment quality by his design,. Ensuring a good indoor environment through appropriat ...

2006

Double-skin façade as a contribution to sustainable architecture : the Federal Office of Statistics Tower in Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Taking the criteria of sustainability into account in the design process involves interactive optimization between the environmental, socio-cultural and economic criteria of the project. As the principle climatic interface and an important architectural co ...

EPFL2005

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