Publications by Marylène Montavon

Optimisation of Urban Form by the Evaluation of the Solar Potential

What will the cities of tomorrow look like? This is a crucial question because in the four and a half billion years of its existence, the Earth has never been so threatened, as it is today. Since 2008 half of the world's population has lived in towns – mor ...

EPFL2010

Optimisation of buildings solar irradiation availability

Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson, Marylène Montavon, Raffaele Bolliger, Josep Bunyesc Palacín

In order to improve the sustainability of new and existing urban settlements it is desirable to maximise the utilisation of the solar energy incident on the building envelope, whether by passive or active means. To this end we have coupled a multi-objectiv ...

2009

Optimisation of Buildings Daylight Availability

Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson, Marylène Montavon

Many researchers have the goal of improving buildings daylight availability in order to decrease the HVAC energy intake. Indeed by achieving/identifying sustainable urban forms and their design concepts, the benefits of the solar radiation can be of threef ...

EPFL2007

La Ville Radieuse by Le Corbusier, once again a case study

Marylène Montavon, Raphaël Compagnon

La Ville Radieuse, ‘The Contemporary City for Three Million Inhabitants’ proposed by Le Corbusier for central Paris is a myth in the history of contemporary town planning. The proposal, according to Le Corbusier, could increase the urban capacity and at th ...

2006

Refurbishment or reconstruction? Essential questions to make an appropriate sustainable renovation of residential areas

Marylène Montavon

2006

Solurban Project, Solar Utilisation Potential of Urban Sites

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Darren Robinson, Marylène Montavon, Raphaël Compagnon

Besides providing a more efficient energy use, a large scale application of solar energy technologies in the urban context will be required in the upcoming decades to achieve a drastic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the biosphere. Three different ...

2005