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Altitude: architecture et environnement de haute montagne

Estelle Lépine

At the centre of the research is the preservation of the countryside which is highlighted and studied through an architectural approach which focuses on cabins in the high mountains. The projects must reflect upon territorial, global and sustainable aspect ...

EPFL2016

Advanced Timber Structures - Architectural Designs and Digital Dimensioning

Wood is usually perceived as a "traditional" material. However, the properties of this material have now for some time made it possible to design free shapes and highly complex structures. Today, the wood laboratory of the EPF Lausanne, which was originall ...

Birkhäuser2016

Rethinking the house form in poor areas

Joana Rosa Ferreira Leite dos Santos Aleixo

Studying housing requires a multidisciplinary approach in order to come up with comprehensive solutions for physical, social and cultural needs. This thesis intends to bring those needs into the process of creating the house, by proposing a methodology to ...

EPFL2016

Towards Solar Decathlon: Concepts for a Sustainable Urban Water Management in a new eco-district

Gianluca Antonio Paglia

Water is rarely considered to be a crucial aspect in sustainable housing. In fact, water sustainability in eco-districts and in ecological architecture is frequently limited to recycling and reuse solutions. Why less water? What could explain the choice of ...

2015

Configuration Logics: Modelling Architecture Styles

Joseph Sifakis, Simon Bliudze, Anastasia Mavridou, Eduard Baranov

We study a framework for the specification of architecture styles as families of architectures involving a common set of types of components and coordination mechanisms. The framework combines two logics: 1) interaction logics for the specification of arch ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2015

Sustainable architecture : towards integrated strategies from urban design to building component

The concept of sustainable development applied to built environment involves finding a long-term balance between environmental, socio-cultural and economic objectives. From an operational perspective, the challenge is to imagine concrete actions that foste ...

ACCO2015

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 ...

Ruby Press2013

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

Innovative Timber Constructions

Yves Weinand

Practical and material orientated academic research has become increasingly important for architectural practice. This is due to several reasons. First of all, it contributes to contemporary concepts in architecture and improves their implementation. Today ...

2011

Computer Modelling for Sustainable Urban Design

Darren Robinson

This is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability, and how urban sustainability may be modelled and optimized. Starting with an introduction to the importance and key aspects of the topic, it moves on to a detailed consideratio ...

Earthscan, London, Washington, DC2011