Publications by Martine Laprise

Revisiter l’urbanité dans la pente

Martine Laprise, Clément Cattin, Emmanuel Rey

Les quartiers lausannois de Riant-Mont et Boisy-Pierrefleur se distinguent par un caractère urbain qui conjugue forte pente et qualité des rez-de-chaussée. Décryptage d’un duo, dont la situation dans la pente a souvent été résolue par des considérations av ...

2025

Regeneration of Urban Areas: From Neighbourhoods in Transition to Innovative Components

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Pascal Pierre Michon, Clément Cattin, Emmanuel Rey, Aleksis Dind

Research at the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) at EPFL aims to explore the interactions between architectural design and transitions towards sustainability in the built environment. This concerns as much the polycentric rest ...

Lars Müller Publishers2025

Between household structure, urban density, and ecological transition: Rethinking the approach of estimating housing needs in Switzerland

Martine Laprise, Ulrich Joseph Jacques Liman, Emmanuel Rey

Switzerland faces the dual challenge of population growth and carbon neutrality targets by 2050. Against a backdrop of housing and environmental crises, the real estate industry is promoting a sharp increase in the number of new buildings on the one hand. ...

2025

The Effect of Rivers on Energy Balance at the Neighborhood Scale. A comparative analysis of four Rhodanian sites in France and Switzerland

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Emmanuel Rey

This research aims to compare the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of new neighbourhood projects near the Rhône River in France and Switzerland. The study considers the influence of the river on energy demand and resilience to climate change of 12 project-ba ...

Wrocław University of Science and Technology Publishing House2024

Vers des quartiers post-carbone?

Martine Laprise, Emmanuel Rey

Face à l’urgence climatique et à la contraction des ressources disponibles, la nécessité de préserver les terres arables pour l’agriculture et de protéger les écosystèmes pour la biodiversité encourage en priorité la régénération des territoires déjà urban ...

Espazium2024

Promoting a city-river balance within neighborhoods in transition along the Rhone

Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Emmanuel Rey

Relationships between cities and their waters have always been evolving. In a context of transition towards sustainability, finding a balance between the urban and river spaces may contribute to the development of new resilient neighborhoods. To that end, ...

2023

An Operational Monitoring Tool

Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise, Emmanuel Rey

The transition from an urban brownfield to a sustainable neighbourhood is a complex operation. To help decision-makers reach sustainability objectives through measurement, follow-up, and communication about performance indicators, we introduce in this chap ...

Springer2022

Urban Brownfield Regeneration Projects: Complexities and Issues

Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise, Emmanuel Rey

Because of urban brownfields’ inherent complexity related to their very nature, as well as their intermediate scale—the neighbourhood—regeneration projects are not a spontaneous process. Indeed, an urban brownfield regeneration project may encounter severa ...

Springer2022

The Multiple Potentials of Urban Brownfields

Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise, Emmanuel Rey

The phenomenon of urban brownfields is significant throughout European metropolitan areas. In this chapter, we assess, both in qualitative and quantitative terms, the inherent potential of urban brownfields to provide a relevant and substantial densificati ...

Springer2022

Application to a Case Study

Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise, Emmanuel Rey

We present an application of the operational monitoring tool SIPRIUS+ to an ongoing case study representative of urban brownfield regeneration projects: the Pôle Viotte neighbourhood, located in Besançon (France). We start with a description of the brownfi ...

Springer2022