Publications by Martine Laprise

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Regeneration of Urban Areas: From Neighbourhoods in Transition to Innovative Components

Emmanuel Rey, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Martine Laprise, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Pascal Pierre Michon, Clément Cattin, Aleksis Dind

Research at the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) at EPFL aims to explore the interactions between architectural design and transitions towards sustainability in the built environment. This concerns as much the polycentric rest ...

Lars Müller Publishers2025

Between household structure, urban density, and ecological transition: Rethinking the approach of estimating housing needs in Switzerland

Emmanuel Rey, Martine Laprise, Ulrich Joseph Jacques Liman

Switzerland faces the dual challenge of population growth and carbon neutrality targets by 2050. Against a backdrop of housing and environmental crises, the real estate industry is promoting a sharp increase in the number of new buildings on the one hand. ...

2025

Integrative decision-making strategy for fluvial neighborhoods in transition

Emmanuel Rey, Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni

The changing relationships between cities and their waters over the centuries lead today – after a clear sidelining of rivers in the city – to question their potential for building new interactions. Current densification objectives of the existing built fa ...

2020

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

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

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

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

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

Monitoring opérationnel pour l'intégration des enjeux de durabilité aux projets de régénération de friches urbaines

Martine Laprise

In a context where the territorial development stakeholders seek to limit urban sprawl, urban brownfields represent an important potential: their regeneration allows an increased density within the existing built fabric and a revitalization at the neighbor ...

EPFL2017

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

Introduction

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

The regeneration of brownfields in European metropolitan areas represents an important potential to mitigate urban sprawl by increasing density within the existing built fabric and to revitalize portions of cities at the neighbourhood scale. Although resea ...

Springer2022

Rhodanian Neighborhoods in Transition: Towards an Integrative Strategy Facilitating Decision-Making for New Sustainable Fluvio-Neighborhoods

Emmanuel Rey, Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni

In the changing history of city-river relationships, cities are today questioning strategies for “reconciliation”. Thus, rather degraded sites like riverside brownfields represent an important potential for the creation of new sustainable fluvio-neighborho ...

2022

Sustainability Monitoring: Principles, Challenges, and Approaches

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

Because of the inherent complexity of urban brownfield regeneration projects, achieving sustainability objectives is not easy. It requires approaches adapted to the specificities of this type of operation, that allow for structured and regular follow-up, a ...

Springer2022

Integration of Sustainability Issues into the Regeneration of Urban Wasteland: From Theoretical Framework to Operational Monitoring Tool

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

Regeneration of urban wastelands can contribute to revitalize and densify some portions of post-industrial European cities. A growing number of urban wasteland regenerations is now promoted by diverse territorial measures. However, it must be recognized th ...

2014

The Effect of Rivers on Energy Balance at the Neighborhood Scale. A comparative analysis of four Rhodanian sites in France and Switzerland

Emmanuel Rey, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni

This research aims to compare the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of new neighbourhood projects near the Rhône River in France and Switzerland. The study considers the influence of the river on energy demand and resilience to climate change of 12 project-ba ...

Wrocław University of Science and Technology Publishing House2024

Monitoring Tool for Urban Brownfield Regeneration Projects Interaction with Stakeholders

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

Urban brownfield regeneration projects are complex operations that are not automatically sustainable. To facilitate the integration of sustainability issues in these projects, a recent research project led to the creation of an operational monitoring tool ...

2018

Specific Skills and Adapted Support

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

Although urban brownfields hold significant inherent potential, especially in limiting urban sprawl, a large number of sites are still awaiting a regeneration project. Moreover, many of these projects only partially or superficially address sustainability ...

Springer2022