Publications by Martine Laprise

Revisiter l’urbanité dans la pente

Emmanuel Rey, Clément Cattin, Martine Laprise

Les quartiers lausannois de Riant-Mont et Boisy-Pierrefleur se distinguent par un caractère urbain qui conjugue forte pente et qualité des rez-de-chaussée. Décryptage d’un duo, dont la situation dans la pente a souvent été résolue par des considérations av ...

2025

Regeneration of Urban Areas: From Neighbourhoods in Transition to Innovative Components

Emmanuel Rey, Aleksis Dind, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Pascal Pierre Michon, Clément Cattin, Martine Laprise, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Judith Elisa Drouilles

Research at the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) at EPFL aims to explore the interactions between architectural design and transitions towards sustainability in the built environment. This concerns as much the polycentric rest ...

Lars Müller Publishers2025

Between household structure, urban density, and ecological transition: Rethinking the approach of estimating housing needs in Switzerland

Emmanuel Rey, Martine Laprise, Ulrich Joseph Jacques Liman

Switzerland faces the dual challenge of population growth and carbon neutrality targets by 2050. Against a backdrop of housing and environmental crises, the real estate industry is promoting a sharp increase in the number of new buildings on the one hand. ...

2025

The Effect of Rivers on Energy Balance at the Neighborhood Scale. A comparative analysis of four Rhodanian sites in France and Switzerland

Emmanuel Rey, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Martine Laprise, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

This research aims to compare the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of new neighbourhood projects near the Rhône River in France and Switzerland. The study considers the influence of the river on energy demand and resilience to climate change of 12 project-ba ...

Wrocław University of Science and Technology Publishing House2024

Vers des quartiers post-carbone?

Emmanuel Rey, Martine Laprise

Face à l’urgence climatique et à la contraction des ressources disponibles, la nécessité de préserver les terres arables pour l’agriculture et de protéger les écosystèmes pour la biodiversité encourage en priorité la régénération des territoires déjà urban ...

Espazium2024

Promoting a city-river balance within neighborhoods in transition along the Rhone

Emmanuel Rey, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Martine Laprise

Relationships between cities and their waters have always been evolving. In a context of transition towards sustainability, finding a balance between the urban and river spaces may contribute to the development of new resilient neighborhoods. To that end, ...

2023

An Operational Monitoring Tool

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

The transition from an urban brownfield to a sustainable neighbourhood is a complex operation. To help decision-makers reach sustainability objectives through measurement, follow-up, and communication about performance indicators, we introduce in this chap ...

Springer2022

Urban Brownfield Regeneration Projects: Complexities and Issues

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

Because of urban brownfields’ inherent complexity related to their very nature, as well as their intermediate scale—the neighbourhood—regeneration projects are not a spontaneous process. Indeed, an urban brownfield regeneration project may encounter severa ...

Springer2022

The Multiple Potentials of Urban Brownfields

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

The phenomenon of urban brownfields is significant throughout European metropolitan areas. In this chapter, we assess, both in qualitative and quantitative terms, the inherent potential of urban brownfields to provide a relevant and substantial densificati ...

Springer2022

Application to a Case Study

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

We present an application of the operational monitoring tool SIPRIUS+ to an ongoing case study representative of urban brownfield regeneration projects: the Pôle Viotte neighbourhood, located in Besançon (France). We start with a description of the brownfi ...

Springer2022

Conclusion

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

The inventory of urban brownfields in post-industrial European metropolitan areas and the study of regeneration projects highlight the absolute necessity of these resources for the sustainability transitions of urban territories and the undeniable complexi ...

Springer2022

Sustainability Monitoring: Principles, Challenges, and Approaches

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

Because of the inherent complexity of urban brownfield regeneration projects, achieving sustainability objectives is not easy. It requires approaches adapted to the specificities of this type of operation, that allow for structured and regular follow-up, a ...

Springer2022

Introduction

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

The regeneration of brownfields in European metropolitan areas represents an important potential to mitigate urban sprawl by increasing density within the existing built fabric and to revitalize portions of cities at the neighbourhood scale. Although resea ...

Springer2022

Sustainability Issues at the Neighbourhood Scale

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

We previously identified that urban brownfield regeneration projects are relevant strategies to limit urban sprawl while revitalizing portions of cities, namely mixed-use neighbourhoods. Moreover, these neighbourhoods in transition are opportunities to fos ...

Springer2022

RHODIS – RHODanie Information System

Emmanuel Rey, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Martine Laprise, Judith Elisa Drouilles

Inventaire des quartiers rhodaniens Dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Rhodanie urbaine », une partie du travail consiste à recenser, le long du Rhône dans son ensemble, tous les secteurs présentant certaines traces d’urbanisation ; qu’elles soient anc ...

EPFL Infoscience2022

Comparative approach of the environmental impact induced by different architectural visions of a new periurban neighbourhood

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

The objective of this research work is to compare the environmental impact, expressed in terms of non-renewable cumulative energy demand (CEDnr) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, of nine architectural visions for a new neighbourhood located in the periur ...

2022

Key Steps of a Regeneration Process

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

Because of their inherent complexity, urban brownfield regeneration projects are long-term operations. The study of the evolution from urban brownfield site to a new—and ideally sustainable—neighbourhood through a regeneration process has led to the identi ...

Springer2022

Urban Brownfields: Origin, Definition, and Diversity

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

Brownfield is a polysemic notion that encompasses a whole range of diverse spaces. Although there is no official definition at the European level, an emerging consensus has arisen around the urban character of brownfields and the need for intervention. Ind ...

Springer2022

Living Periphery

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Frédéric Frank, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Martine Laprise, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Judith Elisa Drouilles

Entre ville et campagne, les périphéries urbaines constituent un défi particulier dans le contexte de la transition. Éloignées de la dynamique de densification en cours dans les espaces centraux, elles représentent néanmoins une part non négligeable de l’e ...

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2022

Specific Skills and Adapted Support

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

Although urban brownfields hold significant inherent potential, especially in limiting urban sprawl, a large number of sites are still awaiting a regeneration project. Moreover, many of these projects only partially or superficially address sustainability ...

Springer2022