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The multiple lives of the “Unité d’Habitation” (1945-1967-2017). Repetition of their iconic value and differences in the construction systems, from their development to their case histories

The Unités d’Habitation designed by Le Corbusier and André Wogenscky represent an exceptional moment in the development of the culture of housing in the 20th century1. Five examples of them were built – at Marseilles (1945-1952), Rezé (1948-1955), Berlin ( ...

Docomomo International and Docomomo Slovenia2018

A modelling framework for modern heritage buildings energy simulation

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino, Giuseppe Galbiati

The latest European polices highlight the urgent need to rehabilitate the existing building stock, responsible for 40 % of the EU's total energy consumption. In this process, a key role is played by thermal simulations, assessing the effective energy perfo ...

Elsevier2023

A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK TO INCREASE MODELLING CREDIBILITY IN MODERN BUILDINGS ENERGY SIMULATIONS. THE CASE STUDY OF CHAUDERON COMPLEX FAÇADES BY JEAN PROUVÉ IN LAUSANNE (1969-1974)

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino, Giuseppe Galbiati

The urgent need to retrofit the existing building stock is a well-known theme, abundantly dealt with in the scientific literature. Thermal simulations have a key role, assessing the effective energy performance of buildings. At the same time, researchers f ...

Docomomo2024

Methodology for energy retrofitting of Modern Architecture. The case study of the Olivetti office building in the UNESCO site of Ivrea

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino, Giuseppe Galbiati

Latest European Union programs related to energy efficiency underline the need for retrofitting existing buildings, which are responsible for 40% of EU total energy consumption. Accounting for almost 45% of the existing building stock, the architecture of ...

2021

Concerning the research “Material history of the built environment and the conservation project” (2008–2020), methodology and results

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

Recent successes in the reuse and rehabilitation of 20th century architecture have shown that design begins with the study of history. Study of the material history of built structures, together with historical and critical investigation, supported by diag ...

CRC Press/Balkema2021

For an "Observatory of Modern and Contemporary National Heritage" - From the Material History of Building to the Material History of Preservation

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

A project without memory is an amputated project: history must be considered both as a methodological basis and as a veritable tool for work. Underlying all intervention existent, extensive historical and material knowledge of what is built must guide the ...

Editions C N R S2014

SBB Zentrum Löwenberg, Murten Fritz Haller, Alfons Barth, Hans Zaugg architectes, 1978-82

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

2018

The Many Lives of Apartment-Studio Le Corbusier

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

Le Corbusier’s apartment-studio is an iconic object of the twentieth century, combining the indisputable material values of the building with the intangible “sense of place” of an architect’s home. Le Corbusier, who lived there from 1934 until his death in ...

EPFL Press2022

RecyclH2O : The future of the Water Purification Plant in Geneva, Switzerland (1964-1967): heritage as a teaching resource

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

2010

Heritage, energy, economy: planned preventive conservation and thermal improvements to building envelopes at the Cité du Lignon satellite precinct, Geneva (1963-1971)

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

Built between 1963 and 1971, the Lignon satellite precinct in Geneva (Georges Addor, Dominique Julliard, Louis Payot, Jacques Bolliger architects) is regarded as the most spectacular housing development in post-war Switzerland. The heritage protection agen ...

Electa2009

Le siège de l'Union internationale des Télécommunications à Genève (André et Didier Bordigoni, Jean-Jacques Oberson, 1959-1999). Etude patrimoniale

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

EPFL2014

Le siège de la Mutuelle Vaudoise de Jean Tschumi à Lausanne (1951-1957). Étude patrimoniale et lignes-guide pour le projet de sauvegarde

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

TSAM-ENAC-EPFL2020

The Sheds of the Voirin-Marinoni Factory in Montataire. A patented architecture by Auguste and Gustave Perret, architects, Louis Gellusseau, engineer

Franz Graf

2008

L'immeuble industriel et commercial Loutan à Genève, 1960-1962. Etude patrimoniale

Franz Graf, Yvan Delemontey

2019

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The multiple lives of the “Unité d’Habitation” (1945-1967-2017). Repetition of their iconic value and differences in the construction systems, from their development to their case histories

A modelling framework for modern heritage buildings energy simulation

A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK TO INCREASE MODELLING CREDIBILITY IN MODERN BUILDINGS ENERGY SIMULATIONS. THE CASE STUDY OF CHAUDERON COMPLEX FAÇADES BY JEAN PROUVÉ IN LAUSANNE (1969-1974)

Methodology for energy retrofitting of Modern Architecture. The case study of the Olivetti office building in the UNESCO site of Ivrea

Concerning the research “Material history of the built environment and the conservation project” (2008–2020), methodology and results

For an "Observatory of Modern and Contemporary National Heritage" - From the Material History of Building to the Material History of Preservation

SBB Zentrum Löwenberg, Murten Fritz Haller, Alfons Barth, Hans Zaugg architectes, 1978-82

The Many Lives of Apartment-Studio Le Corbusier

RecyclH2O : The future of the Water Purification Plant in Geneva, Switzerland (1964-1967): heritage as a teaching resource

Heritage, energy, economy: planned preventive conservation and thermal improvements to building envelopes at the Cité du Lignon satellite precinct, Geneva (1963-1971)

L'atelier ou l'enseignement du projet de sauvegarde

Modern and Green: Heritage, Energy, Economy

L'Ecole de Roches et sa salle de gymnastique, Genève. Etude patrimoniale

Le Centre œcuménique à Genève (1961-1967) - étude patrimoniale

Histoire d'une structure de production : le site industriel du Closel à Renens

Confort et contexture des maisons africaines de Jean Prouvé

Le siège de l'Union internationale des Télécommunications à Genève (André et Didier Bordigoni, Jean-Jacques Oberson, 1959-1999). Etude patrimoniale

Le siège de la Mutuelle Vaudoise de Jean Tschumi à Lausanne (1951-1957). Étude patrimoniale et lignes-guide pour le projet de sauvegarde

The Sheds of the Voirin-Marinoni Factory in Montataire. A patented architecture by Auguste and Gustave Perret, architects, Louis Gellusseau, engineer

L'immeuble industriel et commercial Loutan à Genève, 1960-1962. Etude patrimoniale