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Built density, solar potential and daylighting : application of parametric studies and performance simulation tools in urban design

Giuseppe Peronato

Augmenting built density helps achieve a sustainable urban development reducing, for example, transport-related energy consumption and greenfield urbanization. Yet, in order not to undermine solar potential and daylight, an integrated design approach guara ...

2014

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

Le vide

Stephanie Bender

Today the question of how to work in the continuous contemporary urban landscape, is a big concern for urban development professionals. Still marked by the modern obsession to define the building forms, a vision influenced by the functionalist movement of ...

EPFL2011

Athens Lessons

This book presents the work of Prof. Gugger’s lapa studio (EPFL) in collaboration with Prof. Kourkoulas’ studio (NTUA) on urban issues in contemporary Athens. The study was undertaken in 2010 / 2011 when Greece in general faced the beginning of an importan ...

EPFL2011

Practicing the world, practicing the city - Urban explorations in Beijing

Béatrice Ferrari

Since the beginning of the reforms three decades ago, Beijing has progressively become more urban and more global. With the economic reforms and the gaige kaifang (the opening of the country), the city has been steadily growing in both size and population ...

2010

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

Optimisation of Urban Form by the Evaluation of the Solar Potential

Marylène Montavon

What will the cities of tomorrow look like? This is a crucial question because in the four and a half billion years of its existence, the Earth has never been so threatened, as it is today. Since 2008 half of the world's population has lived in towns – mor ...

EPFL2010

GVA Cube

Harry Gugger

The GVA Cube was th public exhibition of the urban study project undertaken by the lapa studio, in collaboration with the Geneva Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The GVA Cube was exhibited in Geneva in april 2010, alongside a public debate and presentatio ...

2010

"Pékin n'a plus rien à envier aux villes européennes": Descriptions du monde en mouvement, vu de Pékin

Béatrice Ferrari

By examining some of the architectural forms and urban practices that contribute to the worlding of Beijing, this paper suggests ways of understanding how “immobile” actors participate in the creation and circulation of flows. While emphasizing the active ...

2010

Urbanisation, planification urbaine et modèles de ville en Afrique de l'Ouest

Jérôme Chenal

Background Phenomena like rapid growth, unmanageable cities, an urban space in crisis, and the disproportionate expansion of capital cities have rendered instruments traditionally associated with planned urbanism ill-suited for city planning today. Traditi ...

EPFL2009