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As the world’s population grows in cities, urban dwellers spend a large amount of time inside their home, making housing health ever more important. Critical for residents’ health, the interactions between indoor residential environments and outdoor enviro ...
Les formes architecturales et le bâti hérités du 19e siècle ont marqué de leur empreinte l’image et le tissu urbain de la plupart des villes européennes. Afin d’en préserver le caractère distinctif, il paraît alors essentiel de rénover et conserver ce vast ...
This work examines strategies for contemporary renovation of 19th century housing, focusing on three cities with significant ensembles dating from this time: Lisbon and Oporto, in Portugal, and Geneva, in Switzerland. Taking into account the unique urban i ...
Ordinary residential buildings dating from late nineteenth century and early twentieth century are an essential part of the European urban built environment. Today, it is important to address the comfort of residents through renovations improving the build ...
Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development2016
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La réhabilitation des immeubles de logement de la fin du XIXe siècle et du début du XXe siècle constitue une part importante de la pratique architecturale. Considérés individuellement, ces bâtiments pourraient apparaître ordinaires; appréciés dans leur ens ...
EPFL Press2023
The Plan of 1758 for the reconstruction of Lisbon's Baixa Pombalina followed principles of unparalleled efficiency and regularity. The grid of rectangular urban blocks with pre-designed street façades had a lasting impact on urban identity. Today, the orig ...
2016
This contribution proposes a comparative analysis of the original and transformed domestic layout in recent renovations of late 18th and early 19th century housing in Lisbon’s Baixa Pombalina. We specifically look at modifications of room function and conn ...
Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development2014
This contribution proposes a comparative analysis of how legislation on built heritage protection and regulations on energy demands affect current 19th century housing buildings in the city of Geneva. Four measures of protection are analysed, looking at ho ...
Department of Planning & Regional Development, School of Engineering, University of Thessaly2013
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Cet article expose les résultats du séminaire Architecture et Réhabilitation. Le cas d’un immeuble lausannois 1900, donné par Catherine Schmutz Nicod au semestre d’automne 2018, en collaboration étroite avec l’Unité d’enseignement (UE) «Architecture et réh ...
2019
The presentation focuses on issues that concern housing renovation today, such as typological changes related to new comfort demands and ways of life, and, most specifically, the thermal insulation of windows, roofs, and walls in existing patrimony. These ...
