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Digital twins of wooden shingle envelopes

Yves Weinand, Farzaneh Eskandari

Wooden shingles have long been used as a vernacular roofing technique in many well-wooded areas. Despite the fact that shingles, as local raw materials, are low in embodied energy, nowadays they are not much used in construction, as the specific craft know ...

2023

Learning from Failures: Reflections on the Role of Project Design and Design Management in the Procurement of Non-Standard Buildings

Paolo Tombesi

The opening of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in 1997 heralded the beginning of an era in world architecture defined by iconic buildings underpinned by mediatic exposure and the belief in the power of design to leverage urban conditions. Today, a conspicu ...

2021

Teaching the Laboratory of Techniques and Preservation of Modern Architecture (TSAM) at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Franz Graf

More than a decade ago the tsam addressed the question of teaching the preservation of modern and contemporary buildings as a new discipline, specifically and radically different from that of new architecture, both in terms of theoretical courses and the c ...

2019

‘The Towers of Terror’: A Critical Analysis of Ernő Goldfinger’s Balfron and Trellick Towers

Nicola Braghieri

When J. G. Ballard published his masterpiece High-Rise in 1975, many readers in London automatically identified the apartment building that is the protagonist of the dystopian novel as the infamous Trellick Tower at Kensal Town, certainly one of the most c ...

2019

Utopia and Vision. Learning from Vienna and Frankfurt

Alessandro Porotto

The article identifies and observes critically two emblematic cases of modern utopia of 1920s: Das rote Wien and Das neue Frankfurt. These two architectural experiences correspond to two alternative but complementary spatial and social models, the courtyar ...

2016

Resistance & Compromise : Spatial & Aesthetic Approaches of Alternative Cultural Spaces in Lisbon, Ljubljana & Geneva

Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

Contemporary architecture and urbanism concern everyday life in multiple contradictory ways. Floating between alienation and hope, post-industrial and other interstices often hold beautiful and poetic aesthetics of decay, attracting people driven by curios ...

EPFL2016

Images des microcosmes flottants : nouvelles figurations architecturales japonaises

Olivier Nicolas Meystre

This research focuses on the premise that depiction is quintessential to the conception of an architectural project. The representation also provides insights regarding how the architects design the architecture. This thesis is intended towards understandi ...

EPFL2015

Contemporary Architecture of Iran

Notions of identity, culture, tradition and history are key to understanding the contemporary architecture of Iran. Darab Diba explains how the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 broke with an approach that for almost two centuries had d ...

2012

Meshing strategy of equivalent substrate schematic in SMART power IC

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese, Fabrizio Lo Conte

In this paper, a modeling methodology able to create an equivalent schematic of an High-Voltage integrated circuit is developed. The equivalent schematic is based on enhanced model of diodes and resistances, accounting for minority and majority carrier pro ...

IEEE2011

Recent Architectural Competitions for Collective Housing in Switzerland : Impact of this Framework on Architectural Conception and Innovation

Antigoni Katsakou

Architectural competitions have a long tradition in Switzerland that is usually cited as one of the European countries with the largest numbers of competition procedures per year, along with Germany and some Northern countries – Finland, Denmark and Sweden ...

EPFL2011