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Interactive optimization for supporting multicriteria decisions in urban and energy system planning

Climate change and growing urban populations are increasingly putting pressure on cities to reduce their carbon emissions and transition towards efficient and renewable energy systems. This challenges in particular urban planners, who are expected to integ ...

EPFL2018

Neighbourhood-scale Evaluation to Benchmark the Integration of Urban Sustainability (NEBIUS). An innovative education and research methodology

Sophie Lufkin

The holistic nature of sustainability has radically transformed architectural and urban design practices. On the one hand, it enforces the need for simple, efficient, graphical assessment tools to support communication among the stakeholders. On the other ...

2017

Monitoring opérationnel pour l'intégration des enjeux de durabilité aux projets de régénération de friches urbaines

Martine Laprise

In a context where the territorial development stakeholders seek to limit urban sprawl, urban brownfields represent an important potential: their regeneration allows an increased density within the existing built fabric and a revitalization at the neighbor ...

EPFL2017

Working Space – An innovative modular timber construction system for the sustainable vertical extension of office buildings

Sophie Lufkin, Aleksis Dind

Urban densification issues are one of the key challenges for most European cities. In this context, the vertical extension of existing buildings provides a solution to create usable spaces without wasting additional land. Little attention has been given to ...

2017

The city and the urban space as a "forum" of collective living. The urban complex Stockholm Town Hall- Committee building of Ragnar Östberg (1909-1940)

Chiara Monterumisi

“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of eternal youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of the ...

2016

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

Comparative multi-criteria assessment of urban renewal scenarios for existing neighborhoods

Maria Gracia Riera Perez

The growth of European cities in recent decades, mainly characterized by a decreasing density and a functional segregation, has tendentially increased mobility, soil consumption, urban sprawl, social disparities and infrastructural costs. Hence, most Europ ...

2012

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