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Teaching Not To

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes

Two design studios were successively taught in two schools of architecture: one at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the other at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, based on "A Global Morato ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2024

Could building replacements significantly contribute to seismic vulnerability mitigation at urban scale? Case studies of two typical swiss cities

Pierino Lestuzzi

This paper contains an investigation on the potential decrease of seismic vulnerability related to building replacements for the cities of Sion and Martigny in Switzerland. Those two cities were identified for the present research based on the accuracy of ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Database of Embodied Quantity Outputs: Lowering Material Impacts Through Engineering

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Endrit Hoxha, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf

Current studies and performance labels focus mainly on the operational energy demand of buildings due to heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting, and hot water, but they rarely account for embodied impacts. Performing a life cycle assessment (LCA) on an en ...

2020

Shading device

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Yujie Wu

A shading device (D.1, D.2) is configured to be integrated into a façade of a building, wherein the shading device (D.1, D.2) comprises an imaging system (3) configured to create images of an outside view of the building. ...

2020

Modern Schools in Angola, 1961-1975: Design with Climate and Heritage

Maria Margarida Gonçalves Quintã

The architectural production of Angola between 1961 and 1975 forms the basis of the current study. Taking into consideration that buildings' environmental performance is, at one time, one of the most central aspects of the Modern Movement legacy and a pres ...

EPFL2019

Analysis and Visualisation of Decision Paths towards Reaching Environmental Impact Targets at Early-Design Stage

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Émilie Nault

Environmental impact objectives are commonly found in building performance labels and rating schemes. Anticipating a building’s impact from the conceptual design stage and identifying decisions that do not compromise its chances of reaching these targets i ...

Universidade da Coruña2020

Fiber-based hysteretic model for simulating strength and stiffness deterioration of steel hollow structural section columns under cyclic loading

Dimitrios Lignos

An efficient component model has been developed that captures strength and stiffness deterioration of steel hollow structural section (HSS) columns. The proposed model consists of two fiber-based segments at a member's ends along with an elastic segment in ...

2020

Application of Association Rules to Determine Building Typological Classes for Seismic Damage Predictions at Regional Scale: The Case Study of Basel

Pierino Lestuzzi, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Lorenzo Diana

Assessing seismic vulnerability at large scales requires accurate attribution of individual buildings to more general typological classes that are representative of the seismic behavior of the buildings sharing same attributes. One-by-one evaluation of all ...

2019

A method for building a structure containing living cells

Matthias Lütolf, Andrea Negro

A composition comprising a first material and a second material, wherein said first material is cross-linkable by a first cross- linking reaction and said second material is cross-linkable by a second cross-linking reaction, wherein said first cross-linkin ...

2016

Introduction of a dynamic interpretation of building LCA results: the case of the smart living (lab) building in Fribourg, Switzerland

Marilyne Andersen, Emmanuel Rey, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha

Although a building lifetime is not predictable, it is an essential data in the yearly impact calculation. Yet, in the assessment of the environmental impacts of building the lifetime is considered as a fixed value. The purpose of this study is to introduc ...

2016

Model Predictive Control for Market-Based Demand Response Participation

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi

In this study, we investigate the maximum possible profit for a commercial office building participating in New York’s Day-Ahead Demand Response (DADR) program. We formulate an optimal control problem, assuming perfect knowledge of future weather, occupanc ...

2014

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

Towards climate-based irradiation recommendations for optimal solar design: insights from a parametric study

Marilyne Andersen, Emmanuel Rey, Émilie Nault

In the early phases of the building design process, decisions are made on certain geometrical parameters, which strongly dictate the future performance of the building. To support decision- making, an understanding of the relation between design parameters ...

2013

Steel, aluminium, plastic: the "unbearable lightness" of architectural modernity. The Centrale d'Allocations Familiales building of the XV th Arrondissement in Paris (1953-1959)

Giulia Marino

The Caisse Centrale d’Allocations Familiales de la Région Parisienne (or CCAFRP, shortened to CAF) was built between 1953 and 1959 as regional headquarters of a new post-war agency, the Central Fund for Family Allowance. Designed by French architects Raymo ...

2012

Comprehensive Annual Daylight Design through a Goal-Based Approach

Marilyne Andersen

Decisions affecting building form and orientation and choices regarding opening size, type and positioning have a great effect on the building’s access to daylight and are typically made during the earliest stages of architectural design. Computer simulati ...

2012

A PARTIAL DOUBLE BLIND EVALUATION OF A COMPREHENSIVE WINDOW OPENING MODEL

Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi

One of the key sources of uncertainty in building simulation relates to the presence and behaviour of occupants. Fortunately, several academic groups have been working to address this uncertainty, particularly in relation to the use of windows and the corr ...

2010

Dynamic Ornament: The Design of Responsive Architectural Environments

Mark Meagher

This thesis study investigates the architectural potential of digital information, using case studies and prototypes to explore the integration of dynamic information in the architectural environment. Responsive architecture, a design field that has arisen ...

EPFL2010

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BUILDING AN INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED ASSISTANT

Didier René Guzzoni

A method and apparatus are provided for building an intelligent automated assistant. ...

2006