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Architectural design scenarios with building-integrated photovoltaic solutions in renovation processes: Case study in Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

In view of the importance of urban renewal processes, building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems can potentially provide a crucial response to the energy turnaround challenges. Functioning both as envelope material and electricity generator, they can ...

2016

Energy transition potential in peri-urban dwellings: Assessment of theoretical scenarios in the Swiss context

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles

This paper investigates the theoretical capacity of the Swiss peri-urban dwelling stock to meet energy efficiency requirements through incremental scenarios. The notion of “typical dwelling” allows the assessment of housing energy efficiency at the country ...

2017

Entre ville et campagne : stratégies de densification qualitative ciblée des friches ferroviaires régionales

Sophie Lufkin

Environmental, social and economic concerns linked to the sustainable development of the built-up environment are increasingly calling into question models of territorial development based on urban sprawl. This is because the process of dispersed urbanizat ...

EPFL2010

Peri-urban communities in transition: transformation scenarios of neighbourhoods towards sustainability

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles

The paper outlines the theoretical context and preliminary outputs of the investigation on the prospective evolution of existing peri-urban neighborhoods of single-family houses toward lower carbon and more resilient communities, for 2050, in Switzerland. ...

2017

Advanced Active Façades : The construction of a full-scale demonstrator for BIPV architectural integration

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Angela Clua Longas

In most European countries, new energy directives on building performance have been developed as a consequence of unsustainable greenhouse gas emissions. These norms promote active and passive energy strategies to lower the environmental impact of the buil ...

2018

Strategies for Symbiotic Urban Neighborhoods. Case study in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland)

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Suren Erkman

The Symbiotic Districts research project examines dimensions influencing energy self-sufficiency at neighborhood scale by integrating parameters related to buildings, infrastructure, mobility, food, goods and services. Transposing industrial ecology tools ...

2016

Towards advanced active façades : The development of a new construction system combining passive and active design strategies

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 and systems. Among the latter, Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV), which func ...

2017

Towards a sustainable renewal of peri-urban neighbourhoods of single-family houses in Switzerland

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Judith Elisa Drouilles

Resulting from the society shift of the post-war period, urban growth and urban sprawl of infrastructure and settlements of individual housing are today at the centre of public policies’ focus, in particular due to their widely criticized environmental imp ...

2017

Neighbourhood-scale Evaluation to Benchmark the Integration of Urban Sustainability (NEBIUS). An innovative education and research methodology

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin

The holistic nature of sustainability has radically transformed architectural and urban design practices. On the one hand, it enforces the need for simple, efficient, graphical assessment tools to support communication among the stakeholders. On the other ...

2017

Towards integrated design strategies for implementing BIPV systems into urban renewal processes: first case study in Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

In view of the importance of urban renewal processes, building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems can potentially provide a crucial response to the challenges of the energy turnaround. Functioning both as envelope material and electricity generator, th ...

2016

Influence of energy-use scenarios in Life-Cycle Analysis of renovation projects with Building-Integrated Photovoltaics – Investigation through two case studies in Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

Since tomorrow’s cities are already largely built, and as many of their buildings – with a low level of energy performance – will still be standing in 2050, urban renewal processes play an essential role towards the sustainable development of European citi ...

H. Elsharkawy, S. Zahiri, J. Clough2017

Designing with building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV): A pathway to decarbonize residential buildings

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Sebastian Duque Mahecha

The ambitious targets set for greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency by 2050 demand a critical increase of building renovation rates. This challenge is shared by most Western nations, including Europe and Switzerland, where the current annual renov ...

Elsevier BV2024

An innovative architectural strategy for the integration of energy issues into the design process of a commercial center in Switzerland

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin

In a context of growing efforts to develop sustainability strategies, energy-related issues occupy central stage in the built environment. Thus, the energy performance of housings has improved radically over the past decades. Yet other types of buildings, ...

2014

An operational monitoring tool facilitating the transformation of urban brownfields into sustainable neighborhoods

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

The regeneration of urban brownfields is a relevant strategy to limit the sprawling of post-industrial European cities. However, the integration of sustainability issues in urban brownfield regeneration projects is not a spontaneous process, remaining in m ...

2018

Comparative approach of the environmental impact induced by different architectural visions of a new periurban neighbourhood

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Martine Laprise

The objective of this research work is to compare the environmental impact, expressed in terms of non-renewable cumulative energy demand (CEDnr) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, of nine architectural visions for a new neighbourhood located in the periur ...

2022

Linking spatial characteristics to residential lifestyles. A framework for analysing the hospitality potential of urban and architectural designs

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Marie-Paule Thomas

Today, in many European countries, increasing opposition tends to thwart urban densification projects. To enhance public acceptability of such projects, which are likely to promote sustainable urban development, it is essential to better anticipate urban p ...

University of Geneva2018

An Indicator System for the Assessment of Sustainability Integrated into the Project Dynamics of Regeneration of Disused Urban Areas

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

In the context of sustainable densification of post-industrial European cities, urban wasteland regeneration projects offer an important potential of surfaces to recapture. Indeed, these projects can contribute concurrently to densify and revitalize existi ...

2015

Environmental impact assessment of Swiss residential archetypes: a comparison of construction and mobility scenarios

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha, Judith Elisa Drouilles

Environmental performance assessment of the built environment tends to focus mostly on operational final energy consumption of buildings located within a specific context. Such a limited scope prevents broader usability of findings in practice. In Switzerl ...

2019

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

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