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The project is developed around a central courtyard in response to the site where it is located, while taking advantage of the existing slope to resolve the position of the singular buildings in relation to the system of grouping classrooms; the direct con ...
Through a case study, this research aims at contributing to the historic understanding of the international architecture after the Second World War. It is based on the monographic analysis of the projects realised by the Geneva agency Addor & Julliard in L ...
If we assume that architecture is the art of replacing our immediate surroundings, the designed or constructed space has something in common with nature: it assumes the role of something that surrounds us as a whole. Space is something we perceive and sens ...
There is growing interest in using alternative, resistless patterning techniques. Stencil lithography or shadow masking is one of the possible solutions. By means of physical vapor deposition many different materials can be evaporated in vacuum and pattern ...
In contemporary debates about sustainable development, vernacular architecture plays an important role. Presenting itself as a dictionary of man’s constructive logic, it declares with no uncertainty its own usefulness, its connection to the soil, to the cl ...
This paper presents an experimental research that focuses on collaboration in a multi-player game. The aim of the project is to study the cognitive impacts of awareness tools, i.e. artifacts that allow users of a collaborative system to be aware of what is ...
Keynote Speaker - Gulf Forum for Architecture Presentation outlining the use of new technology in the design, development, and production of contemporary architecture. The presentation made analogy to science fiction and the image of the “alien” and then u ...
This thesis questions the fundamentals and modes characterising the European architects' way of looking at Japanese architecture and garden art between 1870 and 1940. It establishes the corpus of the major writings and of other texts published by their Occ ...
Pamphlet Vol. 01 presents the Fall 2007 semester-course held by the studio ALICE at EPFL. Its content documents explorations on gravity and its direct implications in the conception of an architectural project, in this case for a pavilion for the London Fe ...
