Integration of sustainability issues into the design process of innovative temporary event infrastructures.
Within the frame of temporary events, having recourse to the model of the tent corresponds to usual experiences. When the model offers advantages of fast assembly and certain flexibility, it has some significant disadvantages at the same time, especially regarding comfort (thermal and acoustic) and sustainability. Additionally, the transports induced and the materials used aren’t subject to special verifications, especially regarding embodied energy and environmental impacts.
In this context, the research project On STAGE consists of developing an alternative to the current practice, by showing the same advantages of the tent, but by offering an increase in term of sustainability. Not only verified on architectural, constructive and technical basis, but also regarding regulations and efficiency, the feasibility of the model will allow the arrangement of reliable bases for the realization of the infrastructure, which will have the importance of an applicable prototype. From the point of view of an increased sustainability, the project aims particularly at conciliating quality of architectural expression, flexibility, response to acoustic requirements, optimization of the thermal comfort by bioclimatic principles, ideal utilization of resources and efficient utilization of the infrastructure.
Research Partners
Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST), Cully Jazz Festival, Erne Holzbau AG, GVH St-Blaise SA, A 21 Sàrl, Sorane SA, Thorsen Sàrl, Schwab System SA, HP Gasser AG Membranbau, Martinetti Frères SA, Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID).
Research Team LAST
Prof. Emmanuel Rey, Dr. Loïc Fumeaux, Raphaël Schüll, Dan Bolomey
Funding
Private partners