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Franz Graf
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A modelling framework for modern heritage buildings energy simulation
Franz Graf, Giulia Marino, Giuseppe Galbiati
The latest European polices highlight the urgent need to rehabilitate the existing building stock, responsible for 40 % of the EU's total energy consumption. In this process, a key role is played by thermal simulations, assessing the effective energy perfo ...
Amsterdam2023The Many Lives of Apartment-Studio Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier’s apartment-studio is an iconic object of the twentieth century, combining the indisputable material values of the building with the intangible “sense of place” of an architect’s home. Le Corbusier, who lived there from 1934 until his death in ...
EPFL Press2022Le Cèdre. Jean Tschumi 1951-1956
La découverte d'une œuvre d'art totale de Jean Tschumi, aussi célèbre que méconnue. Achevé en 1956, le siège de la Mutuelle Vaudoise à Lausanne devient rapidement le modèle de l'architecture administrative en Suisse. L'intention du maître de l'ouvrage est ...
Infolio2022Methodology for energy retrofitting of Modern Architecture. The case study of the Olivetti office building in the UNESCO site of Ivrea
Franz Graf, Giulia Marino, Giuseppe Galbiati
Latest European Union programs related to energy efficiency underline the need for retrofitting existing buildings, which are responsible for 40% of EU total energy consumption. Accounting for almost 45% of the existing building stock, the architecture of ...
2021Concerning the research “Material history of the built environment and the conservation project” (2008–2020), methodology and results
Recent successes in the reuse and rehabilitation of 20th century architecture have shown that design begins with the study of history. Study of the material history of built structures, together with historical and critical investigation, supported by diag ...
CRC Press/Balkema2021Aurelio Galfetti. Costruire lo spazio/The Construction of Space
I tre saggi qui raccolti propongono una lettura specifica di momenti differenti del lavoro di Aurelio Galfetti e, a partire da un singolo progetto, dimostrano come l'idea di un'architettura territoriale abbia sempre legato nella sua attività il progetto (a ...
Mendrisio Academy Press / Silvana Editoriale2021Concerning the research “Material history of the built environment and the conservation project” (2008–2020), methodology and results
Recent successes in the reuse and rehabilitation of 20th century architecture have shown that design begins with the study of history. Study of the material history of built structures, together with historical and critical investigation, supported by diag ...
CRC Press/Balkema - Taylor & Francis2021La construction de l'Institut Battelle. L'âge d'or de la recherche scientifique à Genève, 1953-1972
Franz Graf, Yvan Delemontey, Mélanie Delaune Perrin
Implanté à Genève en 1952, l’Institut Battelle est un centre de recherche privé américain dont l’objectif est de mettre à disposition des entreprises ou des organismes gouvernementaux qui le souhaitent, ses laboratoires et son personnel scientifique dans l ...
2021Teaching the Laboratory of Techniques and Preservation of Modern Architecture (TSAM) at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
More than a decade ago the tsam addressed the question of teaching the preservation of modern and contemporary buildings as a new discipline, specifically and radically different from that of new architecture, both in terms of theoretical courses and the c ...
2019The multiple lives of the “Unité d’Habitation” (1945-1967-2017). Repetition of their iconic value and differences in the construction systems, from their development to their case histories
The Unités d’Habitation designed by Le Corbusier and André Wogenscky represent an exceptional moment in the development of the culture of housing in the 20th century1. Five examples of them were built – at Marseilles (1945-1952), Rezé (1948-1955), Berlin ( ...
Docomomo International and Docomomo Slovenia2018