Publications by Catarina Wall Gago

Rénovation de logements: Immeubles d'habitation fin XIXe et début XXe siècle à Lausanne

Peter Zurbrügg, Luca Ortelli, Catarina Wall Gago

La réhabilitation des immeubles de logement de la fin du XIXe siècle et du début du XXe siècle constitue une part importante de la pratique architecturale. Considérés individuellement, ces bâtiments pourraient apparaître ordinaires; appréciés dans leur ens ...

EPFL Press2023

Housing, street and health: a new systemic research framework

Stéphane Joost, Paola Viganò, Catarina Wall Gago, Anna Pagani, Derek Pierre Christie, Dusan Licina, Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Idris Guessous, Mathias Lerch

As the world’s population grows in cities, urban dwellers spend a large amount of time inside their home, making housing health ever more important. Critical for residents’ health, the interactions between indoor residential environments and outdoor enviro ...

2023

Rénovation d’un héritage bâti: Entre sauvegarde et confort domestique

Catarina Wall Gago

Les formes architecturales et le bâti hérités du 19e siècle ont marqué de leur empreinte l’image et le tissu urbain de la plupart des villes européennes. Afin d’en préserver le caractère distinctif, il paraît alors essentiel de rénover et conserver ce vast ...

MetisPresses2022

L'immeuble d'habitation avenue d'Echallens 15 à Lausanne construit en 1901 par l'entrepreneur Charles Pache

Peter Zurbrügg, Luca Ortelli, Catarina Wall Gago, Catherine Schmutz Nicod

Cet article expose les résultats du séminaire Architecture et Réhabilitation. Le cas d’un immeuble lausannois 1900, donné par Catherine Schmutz Nicod au semestre d’automne 2018, en collaboration étroite avec l’Unité d’enseignement (UE) «Architecture et réh ...

2019

Housing and Contemporaneity: Recent Renovations in Lisbon's Baixa Pombalina

Catarina Wall Gago

The Plan of 1758 for the reconstruction of Lisbon's Baixa Pombalina followed principles of unparalleled efficiency and regularity. The grid of rectangular urban blocks with pre-designed street façades had a lasting impact on urban identity. Today, the orig ...

2016

Windows and renovation: The case of 19th century ordinary housing in Switzerland

Peter Zurbrügg, Luca Ortelli, Catarina Wall Gago

Ordinary residential buildings dating from late nineteenth century and early twentieth century are an essential part of the European urban built environment. Today, it is important to address the comfort of residents through renovations improving the build ...

Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development2016

Contemporary renovation of 19th century housing in Lisbon, Oporto and Geneva : comfort, typology and urban character

Catarina Wall Gago

This work examines strategies for contemporary renovation of 19th century housing, focusing on three cities with significant ensembles dating from this time: Lisbon and Oporto, in Portugal, and Geneva, in Switzerland. Taking into account the unique urban i ...

EPFL2015

Renovation strategies: use and changes to Lisbon’s domestic spaces

Catarina Wall Gago

This contribution proposes a comparative analysis of the original and transformed domestic layout in recent renovations of late 18th and early 19th century housing in Lisbon’s Baixa Pombalina. We specifically look at modifications of room function and conn ...

Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development2014

Urban identity: heritage protection and comfort regulations in Geneva’s current housing

Catarina Wall Gago

This contribution proposes a comparative analysis of how legislation on built heritage protection and regulations on energy demands affect current 19th century housing buildings in the city of Geneva. Four measures of protection are analysed, looking at ho ...

Department of Planning & Regional Development, School of Engineering, University of Thessaly2013