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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

Symbiotic Districts : Innovative design strategies for local energy production and resource self-reliance at neighborhood scale

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Suren Erkman

The project Symbiotic Districts aims to develop a new design and calculation methodology for creating symbiotic districts in the Swiss urban context. The research examines the scientific, technical, urban development and architectural dimensions that influ ...

2013

Urban planning and solar potential: Assessing users' interaction with a novel decision-support workflow for early-stage design

Marilyne Andersen, Emmanuel Rey, Émilie Nault, Luisa Pastore

The need for sustainable architecture and urban design and planning has long been acknowledged, along with the necessity for adequate, early-phase guiding instruments. This paper aims at exploring the effectiveness and usability of a novel decision-support ...

2016

Strategic Integration of Operational Assessment into the Transformation of Urban Wastelands to Sustainable Neighborhoods

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

It is now common knowledge, the regeneration of previously developed sites in urban areas can have positive impacts on the environment, the economy and the society as they constitute opportunities for the densification of the existing built fabric. In the ...

2014

Microcity, an Innovative Building Integrating Sustainability Issues from Urban Design to Constructive Detail

Emmanuel Rey

The Microcity building, which houses the new branch of the EPFL in Neuchâtel (Switzerland), is the result of a synergy-generating strategy based on partnerships, experimentation with innovative processes and the continuous integration of sustainability-rel ...

2017

An Operational Indicator System for the Integration of Sustainability into the Design Process of Urban Wasteland Regeneration Projects

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

In the context of sustainable development of European post-industrial cities, urban wastelands offer an important potential of surfaces to recapture. The regeneration of these sites is indeed an opportunity to simultaneously create density within the exist ...

2014

Fostering sustainable urban renewal at the neighborhood scale with a spatial decision support system

Emmanuel Rey, Martine Laprise, Maria Gracia Riera Perez

Sustainable urban densification is one of the main challenges of European post-industrial cities. In Switzerland, a recent adaptation of the federal law on spatial planning reinforces the limitation of urban sprawl. Hence, public authorities are confronted ...

2018

SIPRIUS+ : A sustainability monitoring tool specifically designed for urban brownfields regeneration projects

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

One of the relevant strategies to limit the sprawl of post-industrial European cities is the regeneration of urban brownfields. This type of projects concentrates new development within already urbanized areas and contributes to their revitalization. Despi ...

2017

Integration of sustainability issues into the design process of a temporary event infrastructure

Emmanuel Rey, Loïc Vivien Fumeaux

Within the frame of temporary events, having recourse to the model of the tent corresponds to usual experiences. When the model offers advantages of fast assembly and certain flexibility, it has some significant disadvantages at the same time, especially r ...

2012

Integrating urban energy simulation in a parametric environment: a Grasshopper interface for CitySim

Marilyne Andersen, Emmanuel Rey, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Giuseppe Peronato

The increasing popularity of parametric design tools goes hand in hand with the use of building performance simulation (BPS) tools from the early design phase. However, current methods require a significant computational time and a high number of parameter ...

2017

Towards Advanced Active Façades: Analysis of façade requirements and development of an innovative construction system

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Angela Clua Longas

In Switzerland, as in many European countries, new energy directives focus on decreasing the carbon footprint of buildings by promoting passive and active energy strategies. Among the latter, Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV), which function both as ...

2017

Early design phase evaluation of urban solar potential: Insights from the analysis of six projects

Marilyne Andersen, Emmanuel Rey, Émilie Nault

This paper presents the outcome of a study based on the early-stage analysis of six virtual urban-scale designs located in Bern, Switzerland. A preliminary solar potential evaluation methodology is devised, inspired by previous studies, to allow the compar ...

2013

URBIUS : a method for assessing the sustainability of urban renewal strategies at neighborhood scale

Emmanuel Rey, Maria Gracia Riera Perez

This paper presents the URBIUS method, developed to assess the sustainability of urban renewal strategies at neighbourhood scale. The conceptual framework of URBIUS gathers the main issues of urban sustainability, including social, economic and environment ...

2015

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

Key Steps of a Regeneration Process

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

Because of their inherent complexity, urban brownfield regeneration projects are long-term operations. The study of the evolution from urban brownfield site to a new—and ideally sustainable—neighbourhood through a regeneration process has led to the identi ...

Springer2022

Implementation of a sustainability monitoring tool into the dynamics of an urban brownfield regeneration project

Emmanuel Rey, Martine Laprise

Within the context of post-industrial European cities, the regeneration of urban brownfields contributes to limit urban sprawl by increasing cities density while revitalizing neighborhoods. Yet because of their complex nature, urban brownfields regeneratio ...

2019

Application of the cost-optimal methodology to urban renewal projects at the territorial scale based on statistical data—A case study in Spain

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

As tomorrow’s cities are already largely built, many strategies stress the importance of urban renewalprocesses to address current energy issues. This paper focuses on the Spanish residential building stockbuilt until 2001, which has a low level of energy ...

2017

Exploring the Robustness of Building-Integrated Photovoltaics Renovation Scenarios to Climate Change Perspectives: Results for a multi-family building in the Swiss context

Emmanuel Rey, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Émilie Nault

Building renovation is one of the main strategies put forth in western countries, where energy regulations are becoming increasingly demanding. Switzerland for example has set the ambitious target aiming at carbon neutrality for 2050. Building-integrated p ...

Universidade da Coruña2020

The influence of centrality on the global energy consumption in Swiss neighborhoods

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Laure-Emmanuelle Perret Aebi

The objective of this research is to compare the energy consumption of seven recently built residential neighborhoods in the urban region of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in order to identify the influence of centrality on total energy spending. Primary energy i ...

Elsevier2013

Integrated design strategies for renovation projects with Building-Integrated Photovoltaics towards Low-Carbon Buildings: Two comparative case studies in Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

As tomorrow’s cities are already largely built, and as many of their buildings have a low energy performance level, urban renewal processes are essential for the sustainable development of European cities. In this context, Building-Integrated Photovoltaic ...

2017