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Concevoir à grande échelle

Mathieu Louis Pierre Mercuriali

Large-scale design - Mobility interface models and urban transformation strategies This research project is based on the hypothesis that the urban transformations generated by mobility interfaces constitute a key component of successful sustainable urban ...

EPFL2015

Territories in crisis. Architecture and Urbanism Facing Changes in Europe

Europe’s current crisis is also a crisis of the European city. Economic, social, and political insecurities have changed our perception of territories, institutions, and forms of living, and have dramatically weakened the complex interactions within Europe ...

Jovis2015

Historicist aesthetics of architectural image: Mimesis and memorial in public space

Sila Karatas

Turkey has been facing an aesthetic revivalism of Ottoman and Anatolian Seljuk architecture within public space, a phenomenon which is having been observed not only in the construction of new public buildings but also the renovation of historical housing d ...

2013

"They're Building Villas On the Roofs": Encountering Transnational Elites In a Geneva Central Neighborhood

Hossam Adly El Shentenawy

In the literature on cities and elite migration, the processes through which gentrified neighborhoods emerge and effect on urban life in terms of segregation have been widely studied. However, studies on how host societies negotiate the encounter with elit ...

2012

Planification urbaine et usages des quartiers précaires en Afrique

Benjamin Michelon

Since 2000, declarations issued in rapid succession by the international community have aimed at setting goals to drastically improve the living conditions of slum dwellers while, in the same time, the slums dwellers increased by 4,5% per year in Africa. S ...

EPFL2012

Tabriz - La mixité programmatique dans le contexte d'une ville islamique (Iran)

Sanam Leisiazar

Dramatic growth of urban populations in the developing countries is being a challenging issue in the upcoming decades. Tabriz is one of those megacities in the northwest of Iran with a rapid rate of development and modernization. As a consequence an urban- ...

2011

Étapes marquantes du développement urbain de la Chaux-de-Fonds

Tearanel Te

The city planning of La Chaux-de-Fonds, they way we know it today, is the result of a long evolution. It starts the day after a fire which, in 1794, practically devastated the whole village. With the human and material loss which the fire caused, this disa ...

EPFL2011

Habiter la ville ouverte

Didier Challand

Between 2002 and 2004 Martin Steinmann gave a close insight to the urban villa, a building type well-known a century ago in our cities and recently brought to the foreground as a major architectural issue in the German speaking part of Switzerland. Through ...

EPFL2010

Entre ville et campagne

Sophie Lufkin

Environmental, social and economic concerns linked to the sustainable development of the built-up environment are increasingly calling into question models of territorial development based on urban sprawl. This is because the process of dispersed urbanizat ...

EPFL2010

Densité et logement collectif

Nicolas Bassand

As a measurement, built density (coefficient of land surface to be built and total floor space) has been the object of numerous researches on urban morphology and architectural forms during the twentieth century. However, for the last ten years, its sensor ...

EPFL2009