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Patronage as Collaboration

Published:18.12.23 — Michela Bonomo contributed to Vol. 3, No. 5 of the Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge on the call "Collaborations: Rethinking Architectural Design" in December 2023 with her article 'Patronage as Collaboration. Dante Bini's Villas in Sardinia'.

Let the wind take care of everything

Published:19.04.24 — Let the wind take care of everything est une célébration du travail des étudiant·e·s de la formation supérieure en photographie du CEPV et de la démarche pédagogique menée par le laboratoire ALICE de la section d’architecture de l’EPFL. C’est une exploration visuelle et textuelle liant architecture et photographie qui prend la forme d’une publication distribuée par l’éditeur Mörel books.

New postgrad course "Digital Timber Construction"

Published:19.04.23 — How can we leverage technology and digital tools to design innovative and sustainable wood construction projects?

Smart Living Lab Annual Report 2022

Published:19.07.23 — Discover the Smart Living Lab 2022 annual report! The succession of unprecedented crises that continue to beset our society calls for profound changes in how we produce and use buildings. These have an impact on the environment and the climate because they consume energy and natural resources for the sake of human comfort. They can also affect our health, and raise geopolitical challenges due to issues surrounding access to raw and construction materials. Our lifestyles have dramatically changed since the COVID-19 pandemic, which has in turn led us to use the built environment in new ways. These changes require innovative technological and social solutions that are driven by scientific progress.

An ecological footbridge to slow down

Published:25.04.24 — 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).

The feeling of attachment to Greater Geneva varies with distance

Published:16.04.24 — Luca Pattaroni and Guillaume Drevon, from Urban Sociology Laboratory of EPFL, carried out research which shows that the feeling of attachment to the region is weaker in the French and Vaudois parts of Greater Geneva than in the Geneva part. They specify that we find similar dispersions in the Franco-Belgian cross-border agglomeration of Lille and in that of the Franco-Spanish Basque Country.

“There's room in Swiss agriculture for greater biodiversity”

Published:13.12.23 — This year’s UNIL-EPFL Durabilis Awards went to two Master’s projects addressing sustainability in the food industry. Both winners – Agathe Crosnier (EPFL – SSIE) and Nicolas Bissardon (UNIL) – came up with fresh ideas for producing and consuming food in a more environmentally responsible way.

Podcast with Marilyne Andersen in "Register Architecture & Landscape"

Published:23.02.24 — Prof. Marilyne Andersen has been invited by Kingston University London to talk about her career, work and interests around the topic of daylight. The podcast explores a wide range of her early and current work as well as the strategies she deployed when managing the ENAC School as Dean.

Cirkla webinar on Concrete Reuse

Published:18.04.24 — This Thursday April 18th, 2024, at 12:30pm (Swiss Time), Maléna Bastien-Masse, senior researcher at the Structural Xploration Lab, will host a webinar on the reuse of concrete elements in buildings. The webinar is part of a series organized by Cirkla, the Swiss umbrella organization for component reuse in buildings.

What can the Avanchet-Parc housing complex teach us today?

Published:09.05.23 — In this column, published in three regional dailies, researcher and architect Giulia Marino discusses how the Avanchet-Parc housing complex near Geneva can inspire future ecodistricts