Publications de Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni

Regeneration of Urban Areas: From Neighbourhoods in Transition to Innovative Components

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Pascal Pierre Michon, Clément Cattin, Emmanuel Rey, Aleksis Dind

Research at the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) at EPFL aims to explore the interactions between architectural design and transitions towards sustainability in the built environment. This concerns as much the polycentric rest ...

Lars Müller Publishers2025

The Effect of Rivers on Energy Balance at the Neighborhood Scale. A comparative analysis of four Rhodanian sites in France and Switzerland

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Emmanuel Rey

This research aims to compare the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of new neighbourhood projects near the Rhône River in France and Switzerland. The study considers the influence of the river on energy demand and resilience to climate change of 12 project-ba ...

Wrocław University of Science and Technology Publishing House2024

Quartiers rhodaniens en transition

Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni

Over the course of history, the relationship between cities and their waters has shown different gradients of interweaving, marked by cycles of bonding and distancing. Following a period of complete neglect of urban watercourses, the versatile, multifacete ...

EPFL2024

Promoting a city-river balance within neighborhoods in transition along the Rhone

Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Emmanuel Rey

Relationships between cities and their waters have always been evolving. In a context of transition towards sustainability, finding a balance between the urban and river spaces may contribute to the development of new resilient neighborhoods. To that end, ...

2023

RHODIS – RHODanie Information System

Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Emmanuel Rey

Inventaire des quartiers rhodaniens Dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Rhodanie urbaine », une partie du travail consiste à recenser, le long du Rhône dans son ensemble, tous les secteurs présentant certaines traces d’urbanisation ; qu’elles soient anc ...

EPFL Infoscience2022

Des propositions architecturales aux textures différenciées

Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Emmanuel Rey

Par leur situation aux franges de l’agglomération, les espaces périurbains se confrontent à de multiples enjeux spécifiques : émergence de dynamiques métropolitaines à grande échelle, interaction avec des paysages hétérogènes, reconnais-sance de caractéris ...

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2022

Living Periphery

Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Emmanuel Rey, Frédéric Frank

Entre ville et campagne, les périphéries urbaines constituent un défi particulier dans le contexte de la transition. Éloignées de la dynamique de densification en cours dans les espaces centraux, elles représentent néanmoins une part non négligeable de l’e ...

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2022

Rhodanian Neighborhoods in Transition: Towards an Integrative Strategy Facilitating Decision-Making for New Sustainable Fluvio-Neighborhoods

Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Emmanuel Rey

In the changing history of city-river relationships, cities are today questioning strategies for “reconciliation”. Thus, rather degraded sites like riverside brownfields represent an important potential for the creation of new sustainable fluvio-neighborho ...

2022

Integrative decision-making strategy for fluvial neighborhoods in transition

Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Emmanuel Rey

The changing relationships between cities and their waters over the centuries lead today – after a clear sidelining of rivers in the city – to question their potential for building new interactions. Current densification objectives of the existing built fa ...

2020