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Preserving suspended structures with light façades (1960-1980).Architectural study and retrofitting proposals

Nowadays, the energy efficiency of the existing building stock is internationally accepted as a topical issue. Energy retrofitting is encouraged, improving the thermal performances of buildings, but often altering the historical image of our cities. Attent ...

EPFL2023

Modern Schools in Angola, 1961-1975: Design with Climate and Heritage

Maria Margarida Gonçalves Quintã

The architectural production of Angola between 1961 and 1975 forms the basis of the current study. Taking into consideration that buildings' environmental performance is, at one time, one of the most central aspects of the Modern Movement legacy and a pres ...

EPFL2020

‘The Towers of Terror’: A Critical Analysis of Ernő Goldfinger’s Balfron and Trellick Towers

Nicola Braghieri

When J. G. Ballard published his masterpiece High-Rise in 1975, many readers in London automatically identified the apartment building that is the protagonist of the dystopian novel as the infamous Trellick Tower at Kensal Town, certainly one of the most c ...

2019

Seismic vulnerability assessment of “Sion cathedral” (Switzerland): an integrated approach to detect and evaluate local collapse mechanisms in heritage buildings

Pierino Lestuzzi, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Lorenzo Diana

Seismic assessment of existing heritage buildings remains a challenging task. There is a high level of complexity and uncertainty compared with the assessment of standard buildings. Heritage masonry churches are usually prone to partial collapses during ea ...

2017

Assessing the bioclimatic features of historic architecture in contemporary cities

Hélène Yvette Claudine Monari, Guillaume Charles Johan Rouff soit Rueff

Since the second half of the XX century, the way new urban areas have risen next to the ancient/traditional parts of cities has been vastly unsystematic, often altering the original natural landscape and/or urban morphology significantly. This has sometime ...

2016

UNIVERSITY RESIDENCES AS A TOOL FOR PUBLIC HOUSING REGENERATION

Lorenzo Diana

Nowadays in Rome public housing suburbs face several critical issues, both physical and social: buildings obsolescence, state of neglect of open spaces, inhabitant’s sense of segregation and lack of social inclusion. These critical issues cause a huge redu ...

Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca TESIS, Università degli Studi di Firenze2016

Contemporary renovation of 19th century housing in Lisbon, Oporto and Geneva

Catarina Wall Gago

This work examines strategies for contemporary renovation of 19th century housing, focusing on three cities with significant ensembles dating from this time: Lisbon and Oporto, in Portugal, and Geneva, in Switzerland. Taking into account the unique urban i ...

EPFL2015

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

Patrimoine, énergie, économie : conservation préventive et amélioration thermique des enveloppes de la Cité satellite du Lignon à Genève (1963-1971)

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

Built between 1963 and 1971, the Lignon satellite precinct in Geneva (Georges Addor, Dominique Julliard, Louis Payot, Jacques Bolliger architects) is regarded as the most spectacular housing development in post-war Switzerland. The heritage protection agen ...

SCR/SKR2009

Heritage, energy, economy: planned preventive conservation and thermal improvements to building envelopes at the Cité du Lignon satellite precinct, Geneva (1963-1971)

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

Electa2009

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