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Climatic Affinities or Type As A Structure Of Relations, Based On Typological Transfer In The Work Of Lacaton & Vassal And Other Similar Precedents

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The Linz Café and the concept of "wholeness": Reclaiming the historical feeling of a long-gone building

Vasileios Chanis

The purpose of the paper is to discuss "The Linz Café," a building that ceased to exist in 1980. This project was conceived and constructed by Christopher Alexander for the summer exposition "Forum Design" in Linz, Austria. Despite its short-lived existenc ...

2024

Climatic Affinities or Type As A Structure Of Relations Based On Typological Transfer In The Work Of Lacaton & Vassal And Other Similar Precedents

Tiago André Pratas Borges

It is a generally accepted idea that typology is an essential element in the disciplinary dimension of architecture. The concept of typology, in its most common definition, is sufficiently malleable to cover a wide range of uses, but it is also this vaguen ...

2023

Results and insights of the April 2022 Academic Citizens’ Assembly

Sascha Nick

This report summarizes the process, results, and insights of the Academic Citizens’ Assembly held at EPFL and online on Saturday 02.04.2022: academiccitizensassembly.ch. ...

The Academic Citizens’ Assembly2022

Conversational Multi-Hop Reasoning with Neural Commonsense Knowledge and Symbolic Logic Rules

Antoine Bosselut, Forough Arabshahi

One of the challenges faced by conversational agents is their inability to identify unstated presumptions of their users' commands, a task trivial for humans due to their common sense. In this paper, we propose a zeroshot commonsense reasoning system for c ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2021

The emergence of digital technology is changing education in many ways. A particularly interesting aspect of this transformation is the development of learning environments that can automatically adapt to individual students and can collect data in order t ...

EPFL2021

Stoic: Towards Disciplined Capabilities

Martin Odersky, Nada Amin, Fengyun Liu, Sandro Stucki, Paolo Giosuè Giarrusso

Capabilities are widely used in the design of software systems to ensure security. A system of capabilities can become a mess in the presence of objects and functions: objects may leak capabilities and functions may capture capabilities. They make reasonin ...

2020

Protofigurations, geometries of transindividuation

Julien Lafontaine Carboni

In recent years prefigurative phases of architectural or urban projects have been rising. However, in the context of prefiguration a precise definition of what could be characterized as a design methodology, a temporal space or also as a political practice ...

2019

Protostructure, archéologie et hypothèse d'une architecture-support

Agathe Claire Estelle Mignon

« How do we pile up dwellings without sacrificing their independence ? » Nicolas John Habraken asks the question in those terms in the book he first published in Dutch in 1961 then in English in 1972, Supports: An Alternative to Mass Housing, as an introd ...

EPFL2019

Feedback and Mediation in Causal Inference Illustrated by Stochastic Process Models

Mats Julius Stensrud

The concept of causality is naturally related to processes developing over time. Central ideas of causal inference like time-dependent confounding (feedback) and mediation should be viewed as dynamic concepts. We shall study these concepts in the context o ...

2018

When conducting workshops with business people, there is a significant risk to become bogged down in the details of the underlying business process rather than seeing the big picture of the value provided by the process to its stakeholders. In this paper, ...

CEUR Workshop Proceedings2017