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People-centric Data for Urban planning

Based mainly on sensors, flow optimization and algorithms, the smart city model has revealed its limits. The city’s smart citizens are scarcely included in the planning process, even though they occupy a key position to produce and share valuable knowledge ...

2017

A Framework for Measuring Urban Sprawl from Crowd-Sourced Data

Martí Bosch Padrós

The amount of people living in cities by 1800 was roughly around 3 percent of the world population. This number has increased dramatically during the last centuries, and currently it is estimated that one out of two people lives in cities. Furthermore, acc ...

2016

Underground Potential for Urban Sustainability: Mapping Resources and Their Interactions with the Deep City Method

Philippe Thalmann, Aurèle Parriaux, Michael Robert Doyle

In the process of urban growth, the underground is often only addressed once all surface alternatives have been exhausted. Experience shows that this can lead to unforeseen conflicts (e.g., subsidence, groundwater pollution) and to lost opportunities (e.g. ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Evaluating predictive performance of sensor configurations in wind studies around buildings

Ian Smith, Maria Papadopoulou

A great challenge associated with urban growth is to design for energy efficient and healthy built environments. Exploiting the potential for natural ventilation in buildings might improve pedestrian comfort and lower cooling loads, particularly in warm an ...

Elsevier2016

Méthodologie multicritère d'aide à la décision pour le renouvellement urbain à l'échelle du quartier

Maria Gracia Riera Perez

The present work develops a new methodology for assessing urban renewal scenarios at the neighborhood scale. Entitled URBIUS, this methodology seeks to meet the needs of municipalities in terms of planning for the development of their urban built fabric. I ...

EPFL2016

Green Density. Interdisciplinary education and research project for the design of sustainable neighborhoods

Sophie Lufkin

In a context of reconsideration of urban sprawl, there is certain consensus on the necessity to promote densification processes in European urban territories. Faced with this challenge, the architectural and urban project is called to play an essential rol ...

2016

Graphical representation of the smart living building research program

Didier Albert Simon Vuarnoz, Vanda Carla Costa Grisel, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha, Arianna Brambilla, Stefano Cozza, Cédric Liardet, Amélie Zizou Gisèle Renée Poncety

The smart living lab project is a pioneering, inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional platform that combines several fields of research related to construction technologies. It aims to be a center of national scope, recognized on an international level ...

2016

Peripheral residential developments in Switzerland : Facing carbon neutrality challenge

Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles

The notion of urban sprawl is a central topic of discourses about sustainable city. In Switzerland as in most European countries, many single-family houses are still being built in the farthest peripheries of urban agglomerations. Characterized by low dens ...

2016

Introduction to the smart living building concept

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

Constructing the smart living building means producing a building ahead of its time, since it will respond to goals set for the year 2050. Nowadays, a person consumes in average 5,500 watts. The goal is to reduce this consumption to 3,500 watts by 2050. Li ...

2016

Impact targets as guidelines towards low carbon buildings: Preliminary concept

Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha, Arianna Brambilla, Stefano Cozza

Developing building projects with low environmental impacts is a real challenge, yet a problem faced every day by designers. To that end, in the design process, iteration between propositions and objectives have been used that are complex and time consumpt ...

2016

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