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Architectural excursion of Creative Factory

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Professor Emmanuel Rey's studio of the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) went on an architectural excursion to visit the Creative Factory building in Renens. This extra-mural teaching activity gave the students the opportunity to explore the adaptive reuse of a former logistics center into a multifunctional building, with particular attention paid to housing typologies. The visit closely resonates with the issues addressed within the framework of the Reliefs urbains design studio.

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Creative Factory © EPFL / LAST

Architectural excursion of Creative Factory

Education

Professor Emmanuel Rey's studio of the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) went on an architectural excursion to visit the Creative Factory building in Renens. This extra-mural teaching activity gave the students the opportunity to explore the adaptive reuse of a former logistics center into a multifunctional building, with particular attention paid to housing typologies. The visit closely resonates with the issues addressed within the framework of the Reliefs urbains design studio.

Résidence D-Vision, Bellinzone, Guidotti Architetti + Andrea Frapolli Architteto © EPFL / LAST

Study trip in Ticino

Education

This year, the studio of Emmanuel Rey from the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) organized its study trip in the Ticino canton. This off-campus teaching activity enabled students to visit architectural projects from various periods that showcase the spatial and constructive potential of urban development on sloping sites. These themes directly echo the issues addressed in the RELIEFS URBAINSdesign studio.

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Contribution to the exhibition Des Cèdres à Dorigny

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Centered around architectural projects—both built and unrealized—the exhibition “Des Cèdres à Dorigny”, developed by Archizoom, retraces the birth and evolution of the School of Architecture in Lausanne. A founding speech delivered nearly a century ago by the architect Jean Tschumi opens the exhibition. On this occasion, Prof. Emmanuel Rey, head of the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST), was invited to write a commentary on this speech, examining what has remained constant and what has changed between 1943 and today.

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