Séance de réflexion collective encadrée © EPFL / LAST / S. Yun

Contribution to the first year EPFL Sustainability course

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In spring 2025, the new interdisciplinary course on sustainability was launched on a large scale at EPFL, bringing together nearly 1,900 bachelor students from all disciplines to support their collective appropriation of these issues by students from the very beginning of their studies. This innovative educational program mobilizes a large team, including San Yun, PhD student at the Laboratory of Architecture and SustainableTechnologies (LAST).

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Séance de réflexion collective encadrée © EPFL / LAST / S. Yun

Contribution to the first year EPFL Sustainability course

Education

In spring 2025, the new interdisciplinary course on sustainability was launched on a large scale at EPFL, bringing together nearly 1,900 bachelor students from all disciplines to support their collective appropriation of these issues by students from the very beginning of their studies. This innovative educational program mobilizes a large team, including San Yun, PhD student at the Laboratory of Architecture and SustainableTechnologies (LAST).

Reliefs urbains © EPFL / LAST / T. Beuret

Final reviews of the RELIEFS URBAINS design studio

Education

The final reviews of Prof. Emmanuel Rey's studio took place at the end of May at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. It was an opportunity to discover the intense, original, and fruitful work of some thirty students who worked on designing a new neighborhood on the hillsides of Neuchâtel. The guest experts on this occasion were Sibylle Kössler, an architect from Lausanne, and Cyril Lecoultre, an architect from Nyon.

Maquette du projet Habitat symbiotique © LAST / Timothé Beuret

Renovate more, build better

Research

The journal TRACES has just published an article on work carried out at the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) as part of the Symbiotic Housing research project funded by Innosuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency. Entitled “Rénover plus, construire mieux” and co-written by Prof. Emmanuel Rey and Ulrich Liman, the article proposes a novel modeling framework based on a prospective and statistical approach to estimate – quantitatively and spatially – housing needs with a view to a low-carbon society.

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