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(dis)appearance : unearthing the fragile fossil of Geamăna through new narratives

Once a commune in the heart of Apuseni mountains, Geamăna undergone a radical change, from a territory resourceful in its domesticity to a post-extraction environment. As of 1984, more than 400 families forcefully relocated, due to the village becoming flo ...

2023

Espace public comme objet per se? Une analyse critique de la conception contemporaine

Sonia Monique Curnier

The recognition during the second half of the 20th century of the essential role played by public spaces in the definition of qualitative urban life has led to a reconsideration of their design. This has occurred in many different forms, such as the emerge ...

EPFL2018

El camino no es el camino. Some reflexions on the Valparaiso School and its architectural teaching

Patricia Guaita, Cornelia Dominique Tapparelli Portilla Kawamura

The teaching of architecture at the School of Architecture and Design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso (the Valparaiso School) has very often been described as ‘very unusual’. One of the most exceptional and most often remarked upon aspe ...

EPFL Press2015

Dynamic Response of a Chevron Concentrically Braced Frame

Dimitrios Lignos

Large-scale shake table tests were conducted at E-Defense, Japan, to examine the dynamic response of a steel concentrically braced frame. The specimen was a single-bay, single-story frame with a pair of square hollow structural section braces placed in a c ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2013

L'Hydroptère: A story of a dream

Pascal Fua, Véronique Michaud, Mohamed Farhat, Mark Sawley, Michel Deville, Robin Amacher, Joël Cugnoni, Guillaume Bonnier, Luc Blecha, Olivier Braun, Antoine Sigg, Marc Oggier, Daniel Schmäh, Martin Calmon, Stéphane Dyen, Davy Moyon

In 2009, l’Hydroptère broke the symbolic barrier of 50 knots and became the world fastest sailing boat over both 500 meters and 1 nautical mile. This major achievement relied on the high skills of the sailing team but also on technical advances of the boat ...

2010

The Emancipation of Destruction – Transforming Gällivare (Suède)

Linus Godet

Gällivare is a remote city in the middle of the northern Swedish wilderness. The city was established as iron ore was found in the ground just over a century ago. Until the 60's the mining industry and the city grew together in what seemed to be a perfect ...

2009

Building exposure: synergy of interaction and narration through the social channel

Daniel Thalmann, Bruno Herbelin, Michal Ponder

The ability to build and control exposure through a seamless synergy of interaction and narration is a strongly required feature of a new type of immersive-VR training and therapy system. This paper presents a practical approach for immersive-VR training a ...

MIT Press2005

Hewlett-Packard: Creating a Virtual Supply Chain (B)

Ralf Seifert

This case is a short (2-page) follow-up to the A-case: IMD-6-0252 and should be used together with it. The case relates the story from July 2001 to July 2002, illustrating the complications encountered in finalizing the outsourcing agreement. It summarizes ...

2002

Detection of Narrative Structure for Annotation of News Broadcasts

This paper addresses the area of structured video indexing and retrieval, and proposes an approach based on fusion of visual and aural features with domain knowledge to detect for the first time, the structure or form of story narration in broadcast news. ...

IDIAP2001

Data compression and harmonic analysis

Martin Vetterli

In this paper we review some recent interactions between harmonic analysis and data compression. The story goes back of course to Shannon’s ...

1998

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