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Rhodanian Neighborhoods in Transition: Towards an Integrative Strategy Facilitating Decision-Making for New Sustainable Fluvio-Neighborhoods

Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Emmanuel Rey

In the changing history of city-river relationships, cities are today questioning strategies for “reconciliation”. Thus, rather degraded sites like riverside brownfields represent an important potential for the creation of new sustainable fluvio-neighborho ...

2022

Pushing the Limits of the Donor-Acceptor Copolymer Strategy for Intramolecular Singlet Fission

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Maria Fumanal Quintana

Donor-acceptor (D-A) copolymers have shown great potential for intramolecular singlet fission (iSF). Nonetheless, very few design principles exist for optimizing these systems for iSF, with very little knowledge about how to engineer them for this purpose. ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

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

Robust Architecture Workshop (RAW)

Paolo Tombesi

Based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Milinda Pathiraja and Ganga Rathnayake of Robust Architecture Workshop have developed a mode of design practice with an impact that goes beyond its built projects, to contribute to social, political and economic development. ...

2021

Synthesizing General-Purpose Code Into Dynamically Scheduled Circuits

Paolo Ienne, Andrea Guerrieri, Lana Josipovic

Since their inception more than thirty years ago, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have been widely used to implement a myriad of applications from different domains. As a result of their low-level hardware reconfigurability, FPGAs have much faster d ...

2021

Photonic Damascene process for integrated high Q microresonator based nonlinear photonic devices

Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer

Chip-based optical waveguides formed by a silicon nitride (Si3N4) core and a silicon dioxide (SiO2) cladding are an important platform for low loss waveguides and nonlinear optics. High Q microresonators based on this material system have become a standard ...

EPFL2018

Teaching Business Design at an Engineering School–Principles/Patterns/Practice

Alain Wegmann, Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska, Blagovesta Hristova Kostova

We present a research-in-progress project on teaching business design at an engineering school. We describe our teaching approach based on experiential learning, systems thinking and service-dominant logic. We highlight how we try, by repetition, to help t ...

ISPIM2017

An Experiment in Virtual Reality to Measure Daylight-Driven Interest in Rendered Architectural Scenes

Marilyne Andersen, Kynthia Chamilothori, Siobhan Francois Rockcastle

This paper introduces an experiment using a virtual reality headset to collect subjective evaluations of rendered daylit architectural scenes. By varying sky conditions and view directions from a fixed position in architectural renderings, the authors coll ...

2017

Description of the capacity degradation mechanism in LaNi5-based alloy electrodes

Andreas Züttel, Philippe Mauron, Mariana Spodaryk, Marco Roman Holzer

The mechanism of the capacity degradation of LaNi5-based alloy electrodes was investigated with a special focus on the influence of the alloy and surface composition, as well as the unique structure obtained by gas atomisation. The electrochemical properti ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

The Design and Modeling of a Novel Resistive Stretch Sensor With Tunable Sensitivity

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh

Wearable technologies, interactive and safe robotic systems require an effective actuator control that highly depends on the accurate feedback from flexible and dense array of sensors. In this paper, we introduce a novel soft stretch sensor design that is ...

2015

Augmenting Learning Activities with Contextual Information Scent

Nan Li

Students often have information needs while carrying out a multitude of learning activities at universities. When information is needed for investigating a problem, the student may interrupt the work and switch to an information seeking task. As Internet c ...

EPFL2015

Design of computational retrobiosynthesis tools for the design of de novo synthetic pathways

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Noushin Hadadi

Designing putative metabolic pathways is of great interest in synthetic biology. Retrobiosynthesis is a discipline that involves the design, evaluation, and optimization of de novo biosynthetic pathways for the production of high-value compounds and drugs ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2015

Soft matter design principles for inorganic photonic nanoarchitectures in photovoltaics, colorimetric sensing and self-cleaning antireflective coatings

Stefan Guldin

The self-assembly of soft matter, such as block copolymers or colloids, allows fine tuning of structure formation on the 10 - 500 nm length scale and therefore enables the design of materials with tunable optical response. We present strategies on how to e ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Wire Mesh Design

Mark Pauly, Bailin Deng, Akash Garg

We present a computational approach for designing wire meshes, i.e., freeform surfaces composed of woven wires arranged in a regular grid. To facilitate shape exploration, we map material properties of wire meshes to the geometric model of Chebyshev nets. ...

2014

Designing Augmented Reality for the Classroom

Pierre Dillenbourg, Sébastien Cuendet, Quentin Bonnard

Augmented reality (AR) has recently received a lot of attention in education. Multiple AR systems for learning have been developed and tested through empirical studies often conducted in lab settings. While lab studies can be insightful, they leave out the ...

Elsevier2013

Designing complexity, The relationship between obsolescence systems and densification strategies for large-scale intermodal hubs in contemporary European cities

Mathieu Louis Pierre Mercuriali

The metropolis can be analysed as an infrastructure in perpetual motion, composed of built elements – the system “hardware” – and social networks – the system “software”. The emergence of an overall city-scale infrastructure composed not of a single unit b ...

LIAT / ENSA Paris Malaquais2013

A Tectonic Approach for Integrating Kinesis with a Building in the Design Process of Interactive Skins

Jeffrey Huang

Today, interactive architecture plays an increasingly important role in urban milieus. However, in terms of design principles and guidelines in the age of digital architecture, the design and construction of interactive skins has been under-explored. A new ...

2011

Comparison of objective and subjective visual comfort and associations with non-visual functions in young subjects

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Mirjam Münch, Friedrich Linhart, Apiparn Borisuit

Visual comfort is a key element at work places and at home. Besides task illuminance and color rendering it is the indoor light distribution, which strongly impacts visual comfort. We aimed to show possible relations between subjective and objective visual ...

EPFL2011