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An ecological footbridge to slow down

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The modulart.ch platform, an online magazine dedicated to modular architecture, devotes a report to the fifth edition of the "Sustainable is beautiful" student competition, which focused on the theme of ecological footbridges, in the context of the renaturation of the Chamberonne River on the site of the University of Lausanne (UNIL).

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Campus UNIL © EPFL / A. Herzog

An ecological footbridge to slow down

Education

The modulart.ch platform, an online magazine dedicated to modular architecture, devotes a report to the fifth edition of the "Sustainable is beautiful" student competition, which focused on the theme of ecological footbridges, in the context of the renaturation of the Chamberonne River on the site of the University of Lausanne (UNIL).

Couvent capucin, Jura, France © Atelier Archiplein / 11h15

Towards a rational use of resources

Education

Marlène Leroux, partner at Atelier Archiplein in Geneva, was invited by Prof. Emmanuel Rey’s studio at the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) to talk about her work as an architect through a selection of projects. Entitled "Construction durable: Vers un usage raisonné des ressources", her talk allowed students to discover projects that tackled, in particular, the construction and sustainability challenges of using solid stone.

Freilager Zurich © Georg Aerni

Post-carbon neighborhoods

EPFL

Invited by the City of Yverdon-les-Bains Urban Planning Department, the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) represented by Prof. Emmanuel Rey and Ulrich Liman, gave a public lecture on March 12 at the Aula Magna du Château on the theme of post-carbon neighborhoods. Moderated by Selver Kabacalman, journalist for the daily newspaper "Le Courrier", the evening highlighted the theoretical and operational interest of the neighborhood scale in the face of climate challenges.

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