PENS-322: Urban voids: mind the gap!This course focuses on transforming urban voids, like vacant lots or abandoned buildings, into valuable spaces addressing challenges such as climate change and social cohesion. It equips engineers and architects with interdisciplinary skills to creatively ...
CIVIL-309: Urban ThermodynamicsThe course examines urban neighborhoods through a thermodynamic lens, focusing on heat exchanges between buildings, vegetation, water, soil, the environment, and people. A group project highlights the Urban Heat Island effect and investigates strategies to ...
AR-365: Theory and architectural cultureLe cours offre un résumé de la théorie et la culture architecturales depuis 1789 dans le monde occidentale. Le but est de comprendre des textes dans lesquels l'architecture est définie comme une discipline synthétisant une variété de thèmes (sociales, arti ...
AR-402(k): Studio MA2 (Huang)The studio examines the effects of artificial intelligence on architecture and cities. Generative tools are approached as cultural and political instruments, shaping design through data grounded in territory, economy, identity, imagery, and ecology. ...
AR-456: Asian citiesLe centre de gravité de l'urbanisation du monde se déplace vers le continent asiatique. Quelles sont les singularités propres aux villes d'Asie? Comment se fabriquent-elles? Comment qualifier ces pratiques urbaines? Quelles sont leurs particularités cultur ...
AR-402(af): Studio MA2 (Tsuneyama)Urban Wild Ecology / Production and Decomposition Urbanism / SOIL studio focuses on earth-conscious construction methods and materials that return to the soil. A radical vision will be sought to incorporate a comprehensive, self-sustaining system of the ma ...
AR-401(af): Studio MA1 (Tsuneyama)Urban Wild Ecology / Production and Decomposition Urbanism / FOOD studio examines urban collective housing integrating a self-sustaining cycle of food, from production to disposal. A highly contextualized and food-centered approach will lead the design of ...
AR-504: From garden city to garden metropolisThe course will look at the potential transformation of the residential urban growth of the last century, what we call the Garden Metropolis, through the re-consideration of the Garden City model. ...
AR-673: Transition workshopThe TW offers an educational framework to accelerate the ecological transition of the built realm. It aims to deepen the knowledge on the built environment and its sustainable development, create/transmit design tools and methods for decarbonizing and resi ...
AR-668: The transition as a project: Space, Life, PoliticsThe Habitat Research Center EPFL and the Braillard Architectural Foundationin the framework of The Eco-Century Project®, in collaboration with the Architecture and Urban Planning department of Ghent University conjunctly organise the 6th Bernardo Secchi Wo ...
AR-669: Urban Regeneration and Industrial HeritageThe course seeks to tackle the challenges of industrial sites reuse, considering governance and heritage issues for territories. The aim is to combine current debates in the three polytechnics, and different expertises to understand contemporary challenges ...
AR-701: Réinventer les rives urbaines ?L'évolution des relations entre les villes et fleuves conduit à s'interroger sur le potentiel des rives urbaines. A travers diverses intervention, les participants pourront appréhender et analyser des enjeux incontournables, démarches innovantes et expérie ...
AR-325: Societies and architecture: research and methodsCe cours constitue une introduction à l'étude sociale et culturelle des questions architecturales et urbaines. Il vise à familiariser l'étudiant-e avec les concepts et les méthodes des sciences sociales en insistant sur l'intérêt d'une lecture politique du ...
