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The influence of early design decisions on solar potential at the urban scale - A parametric sensitivity analysis

The aim of this project was to investigate and quantify the impact of certain early design decisions on the solar potential of a target building placed in an urban context. This was done through a parametric study based on the successive variation of speci ...

2013

Energy potential and interactive design in the urban context

Émilie Nault

Despite the numerous existing design tools developed to support practitioners achieve energy performing buildings, practical use of those tools remains limited, in particular due to their restricted integration into the design process. This project is moti ...

2012

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

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

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

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

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

Towards comprehensive simulation and optimisation for more sustainable urban design

André Gabriel Kostro, Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi

In this paper we discuss progress that has been made in modelling of urban resource flows to support urban designers to optimise the sustainability of their design and planning proposals, In particular we consider models of urban energy demand and more gen ...

BRENET2008

Multifunctional fiber-reinforced polymer sandwich roof structure

Thomas Keller

This paper reports on the design and construction of a lightweight GFRP roof structure in Basel, Switzerland. The sandwich construction allowed for an integration of static, building physical and architectural functions that enabled the prefabrication of t ...

2008

Havana Lessons

Harry Gugger

This book outlines the urban and architectural analysis and synthesis work undertaken by the lapa and thier students as a collaboration betweden the EPFL and the Technical Univeristy of Havana (CUJAE) and the Center for Urban Studies of Havana (CEU-H). The ...

Laboratoire de la Production d'Architecture2007