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An explorative method to support design decisions based on carbon constraints and daylight sufficiency needs

The global construction industry contributes to 37% of carbon emissions associated to both building operations and construction. To help achieve the net-zero targets set by 2050, it is mandated to achieve a 50% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030. As we ...

EPFL2024

Deep Architectural Form

Frederick Chando Kim

With recent innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), machines can now recognize architectural patterns and generate new forms in ways that far exceed human capacity. The integration of machines in the design process has ushered in a substantial shift i ...

EPFL2024

Rising from rubble - Leveraging existing construction tools for upcycling concrete waste into slender walls

Katrin Beyer, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Stefana Parascho, Maxence Grangeot, Qianqing Wang

In this paper, we present a new method for upcycling concrete rubble waste into slender walls through the lightweight digital augmentation of mainstream construction machines. By using such method, the environmental impact of concrete construction and demo ...

Springer2024

Course Design - A Visual and Modular Approach

Marc Laperrouza

This book has been designed for instructors in higher education or adult training who wish to develop a new course or revise an existing one. It adopts a practical, visual, and modular approach based on the principle of constructive alignment. At its heart ...

EPFL Press2024

Embodied Carbon Premium for Cantilevers

David Michael Volpe Ruggiero, Paola Costanza Miglietta

This study addresses the critical need for sustainable architectural designs within the context of climate change and the significant role the built environment plays in greenhouse gas emissions. The focus of this paper is on understanding the influence of ...

2024

FLO:RE – A new floor system made of reused reinforced concrete and steel elements

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Numa Joy Bertola, Maléna Bastien Masse, Célia Marine Küpfer

Carefully extracting reinforced concrete (RC) elements from soon-to-be demolished structures and reusing them as load-bearing components is an emerging circular low-carbon alternative to building new structures. As floor construction typically accounts for ...

IABSE2024

The Current State of the OBI DICT Project: A Bilingual e-Dictionary of Oracle-Bone Inscriptions with AI Image Recognition

Shuo Wen

This article reports on the current state of the OBI DICT project, a bilingual e-dictionary of oracle-bone inscriptions (OBI), incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) image recognition technology. It first provides a brief overview of the development of ...

Buro Van Die Wat2024

Models implemented in the methodological approach to design the initial STEP first wall contour

Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Davide Galassi, Filippo Bagnato, Dario Vaccaro

The official Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production mission aims to demonstrate the ability to generate net electricity from fusion with the STEP Prototype Power plant. One of the key technological and engineering challenges in fusion power plants is mana ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Surface segregation in high-entropy alloys from alchemical machine learning

Michele Ceriotti, Sandip De, Guillaume André Jean Fraux, Arslan Mazitov, Nataliya Lopanitsyna

High-entropy alloys (HEAs), containing several metallic elements in near-equimolar proportions, have long been of interest for their unique mechanical properties. More recently, they have emerged as a promising platform for the development of novel heterog ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Technology-Aware Logic Synthesis for Superconducting Electronics

Giovanni De Micheli, Alessandro Tempia Calvino, Siang-Yun Lee, Dewmini Sudara Marakkalage, Mingfei Yu, Rassul Bairamkulov

Superconducting electronics provide us with cryogenic digital circuits that can rival established technologies in performance and energy consumption. Today, the lack of tools for the design of large-scale integrated superconducting circuits is a major obst ...

2024

A diversity-driven discovery of potential nanoporous materials for energy-related applications

Sauradeep Majumdar

The design and discovery of potential novel materials is critical for the advancement of climate change mitigation technologies. In this respect, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have received considerable attention over the last two decades. The combinatio ...

EPFL2024

RE:SLAB — a load bearing system for open-ended component reuse in building structures

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Dario Redaelli, Alex-Manuel Muresan, Edisson Xavier Estrella Arcos

The construction industry plays a major role in the high levels of greenhouse gas emissions, resource consumption, and waste generation observed nowadays. Key to the circular economy, structural component reuse arises as a promising solution to divert cons ...

2024

Design ontology for cognitive thread supporting traceability management in model-based systems engineering

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Yan Yan

Industrial information integration engineering (IIIE) is an interdisciplinary field to facilitate the industrial information integration process. In the age of complex and large-scale systems, model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is widely adopted in ind ...

Elsevier2024

An aircraft assembly process formalism and verification method based on semantic modeling and MBSE

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng

The aircraft assembly system is highly complex involving different stakeholders from multiple domains. The design of such a system requires comprehensive consideration of various industrial scenarios aiming to optimize key performance indicators. Tradition ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

Strategy to systematically design and deploy the ITER plasma control system: A system engineering and model-based design approach

Richard Pitts, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Federico Pesamosca, Anna Ngoc Minh Trang Vu

The paper details the process of developing the ITER Plasma Control System (PCS), that is, how to design and deploy it systematically, in the most efficient and effective manner. The integrated nature of the ITER PCS, with its multitude of coupled control ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Experimental and analytical investigation of shear-reinforced concrete and dowel action

Marko Pejatovic

Codes of practice can be overly conservative, particularly for the shear resistance of reinforced concrete beams with shear reinforcement when large loads act close to supports. This thesis addresses the topic by proposing a refined design approach based o ...

EPFL2024

Low-tech methods for the reuse of reinforced concrete structural elements

Nicole Widmer, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Julie Rachel Devènes

Most of existing buildings are made of concrete, new buildings are being built with it and others are demolished when still in good structural condition. This drives increased demands for raw materials, greenhouse gas emissions, and an accumulation of demo ...

2023

OASE 110: The Project of the Soil

Paola Viganò, Martina Barcelloni Corte

Inspired by Bernardo Secchi’s 1986 text “Progetto di Suolo,” this issue of Oase offers critical analyses of how soil, as an intermediary entity between surface and subsurface, can further the practices of urbanism and urban design. ...

NAi Publishers2022

Digital Doubles: The Major Agency of Minor Bits

Lucia-Nieves Garcia de Jalon Oyarzun

In a world that seeks to describe, codify and quantify everything, and particularly our viscerality and its interactions with our actual and digital environments, can we find interstitial spaces, currently unseen, unobserved and unlegislated, where we migh ...

2022

Planning Multi-Scale District Energy Systems with Hybrid Cooling Technologies and Decentralized Thermal Networks for Low Carbon Cities in the Tropics

Shanshan Hsieh

Energy demand for cooling of buildings is projected to drastically increase in the next decades. Urban areas in tropical Asia are expected to contribute a major share to this growing demand. These areas are characterized by a high urban density and a diver ...

EPFL2021