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Active House: new buildings for sustainable architecture

Arianna Brambilla

Buildings consume more than 40% of all the energy we use, and about 50% of it is used for the conditioning systems, for this reason it is important to work on the energy demand, improving the buildings behaviour, in order to save the environment of the fut ...

2013

The usability of green building rating systems in hot arid climates: A case study in Siwa, Egypt

Shady Galal Mohamed Attia

In the last three years there has been a proliferation of regional building rating systems across the Middle East. Most those emerging rating systems and labels imitate the British and American rating systems BREEAM and LEED that emerge from an impact redu ...

2013

Density Introduction: Revisiting the Compact City

Harry Gugger, Gwendolin Kerschbaumer

30 specialists from around the world challenge the question of (higher) costs related to sustainability of the built environment The Economy of Sustainable Construction is a publication inspired by the 4th International Holcim Forum and examines how sustai ...

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Human-driven daylighting: research perspectives and outlook

Marilyne Andersen

A conference on advanced building skins was held in Bressanone, Italy on November 5-6, 2013. The main objective of this conference is to contribute to a multidisciplinary, integrated planning approach to sustainable buildings and to create a dialogue among ...

2013

The Compact City: Sustainable, or Just Sustaining the Economy? Harry Gugger and Gwendolyn Kerschbaumer

Harry Gugger, Gwendolin Kerschbaumer

30 specialists from around the world challenge the question of (higher) costs related to sustainability of the built environment. The Economy of Sustainable Construction is a publication inspired by the 4th International Holcim Forum and examines how susta ...

Ruby Press2013

Swisswoodhouse, an innovative concept for sustainable modular housing

The Swisswoodhouse concept was born out of the crossover of several lines of thought concerning issues of urban densification, flexibility of housing, adaptability of buildings and sustainable construction. The approach aims to provide an alternative to th ...

2012

IDEAS - Integrated Design, Architecture and Sustainability

Marilyne Andersen, Sophie Lufkin, Maria Gracia Riera Perez, Émilie Nault

The axis "Integrated Design Architecture and Sustainability" (IDEAS) is a joint initiative of both the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID) and Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) of the School of ...

2012

NOMAD - Network of Optimization Modalities in Architectural Design

Marilyne Andersen, Boris Clément Karamata, Loïc Vivien Fumeaux, Dan-Alexis Bolomey

Two pairs of identical experimentation modules are being developed within the framework of a collaborative initiative named NOMAD – Network of Optimization Modalities in Architectural Design - between the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integra ...

2011

Innovative Timber Constructions

Yves Weinand

The research undertaken in the EPFL’s Timber Construction Laboratory aims both to question in depth the relationship between engineering sciences and architectural conception and to expose new facets of this relationship. The IBOIS is firmly integrated in ...

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Innovative timber constructions

Yves Weinand

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