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‘How To Build a Villa By The Sea’ The Implicit Project of Villa-mania in Post-war Italy (1948-1973)

In the collective imagination the villa is a manifesto of 'the good life’, often representing for architects a laboratory of experimentation and style and an exception in their portfolio. The fate of the villa in contemporary architecture and research cult ...

2023

Forms and Technologies of Italy’s Villa-mania (1955 -1970)

Michela Bonomo

The increasing interest towards the concept of the so called ‘escape from the city’, fueled by the recent pandemic, prompt us to put the holiday villa at the center of research attention. In the collective imagination the villa is a manifesto of 'the good ...

2023

Innovations Practitioners Need for Circularity in the Swiss Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Sector

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf

Although widely recognized as imperative for reducing global emissions and the amount of waste generated by the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector, a large-scale shift from a linear to a circular economy has not yet happened in practi ...

2023

Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science

Jérôme Baudry

Over the past two decades, a number of digital platforms have been developed with the aim of engaging citizens in scientific research projects. The success of these platforms depends in no small part on their ability to attract and retain participants, tur ...

2021

Liminality, Ephemerality, and Marginality with Impact Makerspaces in the Chinese Urban Fabric: Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, and Addis Ababa

Monique Stéphanie Bolli

In the last few years, narratives and imaginaries about maker cultures as well as makerspaces have been flourishing in Chinese cities. With its fast-changing pace, the global maker movement expresses unique features in China and integrates aspects of grass ...

EPFL2020

The procurement of innovation by the U.S. government

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri

The U.S. government invests more than $50 billion per year in R&D procurement but we know little about the outcomes of these investments. We have traced all the patents arising from government funding since the year 2000. About 1.5 percent of all R&D procu ...

2019

Design of a Throttled Surge Tank for Refurbishment by Increase of Installed Capacity at a High-Head Power Plant

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Nicolas Jean François Pascal Ghislain Adam, Bernard Valluy

The Swiss confederation aims to phase out nuclear power production with its Energy Strategy 2050 program by increasing the renewable energy contribution to its overall energy generation. Hydroelectricity, which is the most important form of renewable energ ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2018

Public Cybersecurity and Rationalizing Information Sharing

This paper revisits the Doctrine of Public Cybersecurity in order to shed light on debates about information sharing, by exploring its potential utility, and considering policies to mitigate its impact on other societal values. Its goal is not to advocate ...

International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)2016

Diaphragm In Pressure Pipe: Steady State Head Loss Evolution And Transient Phenomena

Giovanni De Cesare, Nicolas Jean François Pascal Ghislain Adam

With liberalization of European market, many high head power plants in Switzerland increase their potential generation to remain competitive. The existing surge tanks have to be modified to keep the flow management constant. A relevant way to limit the tim ...

2015

Exploratory Analysis of Demand Interaction in the Planning of Passenger Railway Service

Michel Bierlaire, Tomas Robenek

With the new EU legislature, the track management and the Train Operating Companies (TOCs) have to be separated subjects and hence allowing the private sector to enter the market (also called as liberalization of railways). Up to this point, the market was ...

2013

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