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Vers un projet territorial du vivant L'outil des réseaux écologiques comme projet urbanistique de revitalisation du paysage agricole

Marine Françoise Jeannine Villaret

The aim of my thesis is to provide urban architects and planners with working theoretical elements territorial project of the living. The living and the socio-ecological transition are key concepts in the nature and people paradigm, which asserts a human-n ...

EPFL2024

Future Urban Charging Solutions for Electric Vehicles

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, François Richard Vuille, Vincent Moreau, Dominic Villeneuve

The numbers of electric vehicles (EV) will increase as many countries perceive EVs as a solution to reduce the emissions of transportation and therefore incentivize their adoption. However, the deployment of public charging infrastructure is lagging behind ...

2020

Espace public comme objet per se? Une analyse critique de la conception contemporaine

Sonia Monique Curnier

The recognition during the second half of the 20th century of the essential role played by public spaces in the definition of qualitative urban life has led to a reconsideration of their design. This has occurred in many different forms, such as the emerge ...

EPFL2018

L'événement proxémique : étude des relations de circulation entre piétons aux heures de pointe à Delhi, Los Angeles, Paris et Tokyo

Lucas François Tiphine

In a context of traffic networks saturation related to urbanisation acceleration, this research is aimed at contributing to the scientific debate on this issue by building a model to describe dynamic pedestriansâ physical distances regulation behaviours ...

EPFL2018

Aesthetic Space : The Visible and the Invisible in Urban Agency

Mirza Tursic

Recent 'turns' in social sciences, namely the visual, qualitative, actorial or spatial turns, all indicate a rising interest in individuals. Since the aesthetic dimension always nourishes and informs individualsâ spatialities and their decision-making pr ...

EPFL2017

A visual model for mobility practices and learnings, Or why new visualizations allow us to consider the city as a paedagogical space

Alexandre André Robert Rigal

Visualizations of the city are necessary to lead to inquiries and for designing urban and transport policies because they are needed to synthesize information, to stimulate new hypotheses, and to evoke models. However, most of the contemporary visualizatio ...

Dr. Laurent Matthey and Dr. Olivier Walther2017

Potentialities of the urban volume : mapping underground resource potential and deciphering spatial economies and configurations of multi-level urban spaces

Michael Robert Doyle

This dissertation looks at the urban volume, in its natural and artificial materiality, as a source of potential for future urbanization. Underground resourcesâ for buildable space, geomaterials, groundwater and geothermal energyâ tend to be addressed on ...

EPFL2016

Concevoir à grande échelle : modèles d'interfaces de mobilité et stratégies de transformations urbaines

Mathieu Louis Pierre Mercuriali

Large-scale design - Mobility interface models and urban transformation strategies This research project is based on the hypothesis that the urban transformations generated by mobility interfaces constitute a key component of successful sustainable urban ...

EPFL2015

Planification urbaine et usages des quartiers précaires en Afrique : étude de cas à Douala et à Kigali

Benjamin Michelon

Since 2000, declarations issued in rapid succession by the international community have aimed at setting goals to drastically improve the living conditions of slum dwellers while, in the same time, the slums dwellers increased by 4,5% per year in Africa. S ...

EPFL2012

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

Urbanisation, planification urbaine et modèles de ville en Afrique de l'Ouest : jeux et enjeux de l'espace public

Jérôme Chenal

Background Phenomena like rapid growth, unmanageable cities, an urban space in crisis, and the disproportionate expansion of capital cities have rendered instruments traditionally associated with planned urbanism ill-suited for city planning today. Traditi ...

EPFL2009

Densité et logement collectif : innovations architecturales et urbaines dans la Suisse contemporaine

Nicolas Bassand

As a measurement, built density (coefficient of land surface to be built and total floor space) has been the object of numerous researches on urban morphology and architectural forms during the twentieth century. However, for the last ten years, its sensor ...

EPFL2009