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The Linz Café and the concept of "wholeness": Reclaiming the historical feeling of a long-gone building
The purpose of the paper is to discuss "The Linz Café," a building that ceased to exist in 1980. This project was conceived and constructed by Christopher Alexander for the summer exposition "Forum Design" in Linz, Austria. Despite its short-lived existenc ...
2024Digital twins of wooden shingle envelopes
Yves Weinand, Farzaneh Eskandari
Wooden shingles have long been used as a vernacular roofing technique in many well-wooded areas. Despite the fact that shingles, as local raw materials, are low in embodied energy, nowadays they are not much used in construction, as the specific craft know ...
2023Vers une agriculture flottante: faire face à la diminution des ressources de la pêche dans les villages sur pilotis du Tonlé Sap (Cambodge)
Plus grand lac d’eau douce d’Asie du Sud-Est, le Tonlé Sap est une réserve de poissons vitale pour la population cambodgienne. Cependant, leur quantité diminue en raison des changements climatiques et de la construction massive de barrages le long du Mékon ...
2023Responding to floods: disaster relief infrastructure in Piura, Peru
Located on the periphery of the city of Piura in Peru, a series of villages face increasing flooding related to El Niño phenomenon and climate change. This causes separation of families, the loss of their homes, crops, livelihoods, and worsens already poor ...
2023In flow acoustic characterisation of a 2D active liner with local and non local strategies.
Hervé Lissek, Maxime Volery, Gaël Matten
The design and the grazing flow aeroacoustical characterization of a 2D active liner based on an array of electroacoustic absorbers are presented in this paper. The strategy stands on a pressure-based, current-driven digital architecture for impedance cont ...
2022Performance of traditional nomadic yurts for living in extremes
Dolaana Khovalyg, Arnab Chatterjee
A round felt yurt is a traditional dwelling of Central Asian nomads that have survived over 2000 years. The structure and the use of the yurt have not changed over the centuries, making it a nomadic civilization's masterpiece. It has not lost its relevance ...
2021Transformations silencieuses : étude sur l'architecture alpine
This thesis addresses the question of abandonment in architecture, not in its negative sense of desertion, but as a possibility offered to buildings which have lost their original purpose, which is to say those buildings from social and economic contexts w ...
EPFL2021The invention of the Swiss house: engineers, ethnographers and artists to the discovery of the Alpine vernacular construction / L’invenzione della casa svizzera: ingegneri, etnografi e artisti alla scoperta della costruzione vernacolare alpina
At the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900, Switzerland presented itself to the world by exhibiting an imaginary synthetic village, making the conflicting features of the various Cantons – which for a few decades gathered under the flag of the Confederat ...
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