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Courant 2020, une pandémie liée à la propagation d’un nouveau coronavirus a dévoilé les limites des compétences infrastructurelles de nos systèmes de santé. Afin d’augmenter, dans l’urgence, la capacité en lits de soins intensifs et continus, des structure ...

2022

Projeter le vide, revaloriser l'espace public à Echallens

Adrien Blondel

Le projet est basé sur l’idée qu’une harmonie entre « plein » et « vide » est possible, établissant une relation entre le volume bâti et l’espace public. Comme dans beaucoup d’autres localités suisses, on note qu’à Echallens, en particulier le long de la l ...

2021

Does the Homogeneous City Belong to the Past?

Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon

As the case of Paris embodies, a whole culture of the European city has built its identity and organized the collective life of its inhabitants on the idea of homogeneity. The homogeneous city has thus significantly contributed to the collective self-repre ...

2019

SWEDISH GRACE: A MERE INTERLUDE OR A FACET OF MODERNITY? First housing experiments in Stockholm

Chiara Monterumisi

Sweden forms a strange case in the modern development, which this paper aims to examine in detail through the first housing district experiments in Stockholm. Its position on the fringe of the radical ferment of Europe implied a belated advent of modernism ...

2019

Geomorphic work by gravity currents with varying initial conditions

Jessica Zordan

Gravity currents are density-driven flows which can have a high sediment transport capacity. When occurring in reservoirs, lakes and in oceans, significant geomorphic changes may occur at the bottom. The coupling between the hydrodynamics of the gravity cu ...

EPFL-LCH2018

Une icône du XXe siècle délaissée. Conservation et réhabilitation de l'école de plein-air de Suresnes (E. Beaudouin, M. Lods, 1935)

François Rougeron

Classée Monument Historique, l'école de plein-air de Suresnes a été construite en 1935 dans le courant du mouvement hygiéniste et des recherches techniques architecturales d'avant-garde. Différentes interventions transformeront l'école, plus ou moins radic ...

2017

A la rencontre de la musique. Une salle de concert à Munich

Isabelle Stumptner

Munich, ville musicale, accueillera une nouvelle salle de concert. Le site est aujourd'hui divisé par une avenue qui le sépare d'un parc public existant. Le projet propose de générer une nouvelle place, un espace de rencontres qui reconnecte le parc au cen ...

2016

The advantage of the dynamism of the London architectural scene seems rather ignored by historians and theorists. Not only is London absent from the grand narrative of modernity, but it is also denied the status of avant-garde, although since the 1960s, th ...

EPFL2016

Contemporary architecture and urbanism concern everyday life in multiple contradictory ways. Floating between alienation and hope, post-industrial and other interstices often hold beautiful and poetic aesthetics of decay, attracting people driven by curios ...

EPFL2016

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The culture of architecture is based on misunderstandings and tweaked stories. Bad reading, simplification and superficial interpretation of something far away, both in space and time, has been the engine of quite many of the avant-gardes of the recent pas ...

2014