Publications related to Historic preservation

Ontology-based Knowledge Representation for Traditional Martial Arts

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yumeng Hou

Traditional martial arts are treasures of humanity's knowledge and critical carriers of sociocultural memories throughout history. However, such treasured practices have encountered various challenges in knowledge transmission and now feature many entries ...

2024

Impromptu Conservation – Unveiling Huế's Mnemonic Sites: Heritagization, (de)Colonization, and Place-making

Phi Nguyen Yen

This dissertation interrogates postcolonial cities’ syncretic territories, using Huế’s mnemonic sites – historically and culturally significant locales that aid in remembrance – to explore displaced communities’ cohabitation tactics and decolonization effo ...

EPFL2023

Preserving suspended structures with light façades (1960-1980). Architectural study and retrofitting proposals

Giuseppe Galbiati

Nowadays, the energy efficiency of the existing building stock is internationally accepted as a topical issue. Energy retrofitting is encouraged, improving the thermal performances of buildings, but often altering the historical image of our cities. Attent ...

EPFL2023

Methodology for energy retrofitting of Modern Architecture. The case study of the Olivetti office building in the UNESCO site of Ivrea

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino, Giuseppe Galbiati

Latest European Union programs related to energy efficiency underline the need for retrofitting existing buildings, which are responsible for 40% of EU total energy consumption. Accounting for almost 45% of the existing building stock, the architecture of ...

2021

The invention of the Swiss house: engineers, ethnographers and artists to the discovery of the Alpine vernacular construction / L’invenzione della casa svizzera: ingegneri, etnografi e artisti alla scoperta della costruzione vernacolare alpina

Nicola Braghieri

At the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900, Switzerland presented itself to the world by exhibiting an imaginary synthetic village, making the conflicting features of the various Cantons – which for a few decades gathered under the flag of the Confederat ...

2021

Concerning the research “Material history of the built environment and the conservation project” (2008–2020), methodology and results

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

Recent successes in the reuse and rehabilitation of 20th century architecture have shown that design begins with the study of history. Study of the material history of built structures, together with historical and critical investigation, supported by diag ...

CRC Press/Balkema2021

Concerning the research “Material history of the built environment and the conservation project” (2008–2020), methodology and results

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

Recent successes in the reuse and rehabilitation of 20th century architecture have shown that design begins with the study of history. Study of the material history of built structures, together with historical and critical investigation, supported by diag ...

CRC Press/Balkema - Taylor & Francis2021

Re-creating Memories of Gulou: Three Temporalities and Emotions

Florence Graezer Bideau

In 2012, a project proposed by local authorities aimed to revitalise, after a century of interruption, the use of Beijing’s Bell and Drum Towers and the social traditions associated with them. As a result, more than 100 households living in 66 traditional ...

Routledge2021

La mémoire collective et l'espace. Traces, récits et expériences autour d'un paysage urbain romain

Lucia Bordone

This PhD thesis explores the way multiple and tenuous links connect collective memory and space in the contemporary city. It does so through a field enquiry carried out in Rome, Italy. This palimpsest-city has a particular relationship to the past, which c ...

EPFL2020

On the adjustment, calibration and orientation of drone photogrammetry and laser-scanning

Emmanuel Pierre Quentin Clédat

Centimetre level precision mapping is essential for many applications such as land-use, infrastructure inspection, cultural heritage preservation, and construction site monitoring. However, the acquisition and its preparation (in particular the setting of ...

EPFL2020

New Drawings of the Alhambra: Deformations of Muqarnas in the Pendentives of the Sala de la Barca

Ignacio Ferrer Perez-Blanco

Architectural heritage preservation and sustainability need advanced graphic techniques in order to document and understand the disposition/composition of plaster muqarnas, a fragile construction element. The muqarnas are key elements in the Nasrid archite ...

2019

Les "vestiges" de l'opération Million dans l'oeuvre de Georges Candilis - Actualités et stratégies de sauvegarde pour un patrimoine de l'habitat économique du second après-guerre

Korinna Zinovia Weber

The preservation of post-war architecture represents a complex challenge to overcome for different reasons: hesitating recognition, bad perception and a certain material fragility. Especially the economic post-war housing has difficulties to be recognized ...

EPFL2019

A General Framework for Architecture Composability

Joseph Sifakis, Simon Bliudze, Eduard Baranov

Architectures depict design principles: paradigms that can be understood by all, allow thinking on a higher plane and avoiding low-level mistakes. They provide means for ensuring correctness by construction by enforcing global properties characterizing the ...

Springer Verlag2016

Diachronic Evaluation of NER Systems on Old Newspapers

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Yannick Rochat, Giovanni Colavizza

In recent years, many cultural institutions have engaged in large-scale newspaper digitization projects and large amounts of historical texts are being acquired (via transcription or OCRization). Beyond document preservation, the next step consists in prov ...

Bochumer Linguistische Arbeitsberichte2016

Structured Prediction of 3D Human Pose with Deep Neural Networks

Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Isinsu Katircioglu, Vincent Lepetit, Bugra Tekin

Most recent approaches to monocular 3D pose estimation rely on Deep Learning. They either train a Convolutional Neural Network to directly regress from image to 3D pose, which ignores the dependencies between human joints, or model these dependencies via a ...

2016

Semiautomated correlative 3D electron microscopy of in vivo-imaged axons and dendrites

Marco Cantoni, Graham Knott, Bohumil Maco

This protocol describes how in vivo-imaged dendrites and axons in adult mouse brains can subsequently be prepared and imaged with focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIBSESEM). The procedure starts after in vivo imaging with chemical fixation, f ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Right-Protected Data Publishing with Provable Distance-Based Mining

Michail Vlachos, Nikolaos Freris

Protection of one's intellectual property is a topic with important technological and legal facets. We provide mechanisms for establishing the ownership of a dataset consisting of multiple objects. The algorithms also preserve important properties of the d ...

Ieee Computer Soc2014

A General Framework for Architecture Composability

Joseph Sifakis, Simon Bliudze, Eduard Baranov

Architectures depict design principles: paradigms that can be understood by all, allow thinking on a higher plane and avoiding low-level mistakes. They provide means for ensuring correctness by construction by enforcing global properties characterizing the ...

Springer International Publishing2014

Undrawable Architecture Heritage Buildings And Digital Tectonic

Traditionally architecture in Asia was not graphically represented or formalised, and relied on received knowledge being passed down from generation to generation. Stylianos Dritsas and Kang Shua Yeo describe the Heritage Buildings and Digital Tectonic res ...

Wiley Periodicals, Inc2013