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Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies
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Taking a step back from glass towers facades to make them compatible with the 2050 targets
Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Bernard Paule
Skyscrapers or glass towers are an extremely common model throughout the world. In the current context of climate change and resource depletion, we need to develop new postures towards these objects, especially for existing buildings that are becoming obso ...
2023Rhodanie urbaine
Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Martine Laprise, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Pascal Pierre Michon, Clément Cattin, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni
Regeneration of urban areas from neighborhoods in transition to innovative components Research at the LAST aims to contribute to transitions towards sustainability in the built environment by integrating environmental, socio-cultural, and economic paramete ...
2023Working Space
Pascal Pierre Michon, Aleksis Dind
Regeneration of urban areas from neighborhoods in transition to innovative components. Research at the LAST aims to contribute to transitions towards sustainability in the built environment by integrating environmental, socio-cultural, and economic paramet ...
2023Building structures made of reused cut reinforced concrete slabs and walls: A case study
Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Nicole Widmer
Reuse of reinforced concrete (RC) components reduces construction’s environmental impacts and waste. Rather than crushing the concrete of an obsolete structure, its components are saw cut and later reassembled in a new structure. The theoretical feasibilit ...
CRC Press2023TOD against the context in cross-border metropolis? Visions and paradoxes in the case of the Great Geneva Agglomeration
Flore Jeanne Marie Andrea Guichot
Urbanization and public transport infrastructure coordination has become one of the leading principles of sustainable urban growth and mobility transition. This paper proposes a critical reflection on the implementation of the Transit-Oriented Development ...
Louvain research institute for Landscape, Architecture, Built environment2023Reuse of concrete components in new construction projects: Critical review of 77 circular precedents
Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Célia Marine Küpfer
Extracting pieces of concrete from obsolete buildings and reusing them, as is, in new assemblies is today rarely considered a strategy for improving the sustainability of the construction sector. By delaying the crushing of concrete into aggregates and avo ...
2023Mega-Event Reinforced Industrial Heritage Transformation: The making of public space between narratives and practices
Florence Graezer Bideau, Huishu Deng
For decades, hosting mega-events in the present place has been considered as a strategy to boost the future urban landscape. More recently, however, the re-use of the city fabric’s past heritage has become central rather than the increasing urbanisation of ...
2023Facets of Urban Co-Creation
Participation in the context of urban planning is growing in the urban and architectural processes of democratic cities. Urban co-creation means working with communities by integrating their needs, giving them the opportunity to collaborate in the transfor ...
Barcelona2023Valuing the existing. Defining a procedure for a low-impact renovation; a case study on a typical apartment building built in the 1960’s in Geneva
Shifting “From Eco-anxiety to deep adaptation” has been the driving force behind the project “Valuing the existing”. This work focuses on understanding the nature of architecture in a future where there is less pollution and less harm caused by the constru ...
2023Conceptualizing Passage-Paysage
Dieter Dietz, Lucia-Nieves Garcia de Jalon Oyarzun, Ruben Alberto Valdez Juarez, Aurèle Pulfer
In this article, we consider the role of landscape as support for an alternative urban mobility scheme and how architecture can help foster a transition towards a low-carbon system. From that point of departure, we trace the genealogical origins of the ter ...
EPFL Press2023