Publications associées à The World Health Organization Headquarters in Geneva (1960-1966): how mechanical and electrical services are integral to reading built form

Lessons learned from a prediction and postdiction of a shake table test on an unreinforced masonry aggregate

Historical centers of Europe and Croatia are often formed by unreinforced masonry building aggregates that developed as the layout of the city or village was densified. In these aggregates, adjacent buildings can share structural walls with an older and a ...

2023

From Marshall Plan to “Hilton in the wild”: The Transnational History of a Cooperative Housing Block in Esat, Ankara

Sila Karatas

This paper concerns the planning, design, and construction history of a postwar multifamily housing block in Ankara, Turkey, viewed from the perspective of the transnational and local networks behind its realization. Built by the Mintrak Building Cooperati ...

2022

Engineering of Existing Structures: The Need and Place for Non-destructive Evaluation

Eugen Brühwiler, Numa Joy Bertola, Thomas Schumacher

Structural engineers today are still educated mainly to design new structures. This ignores the fact that structures already exist and need to be maintained. Students are thus often ill-equipped to deal with maintenance and preservation of existing structu ...

2022

Seismic testing of adjacent interacting masonry structures – A pre-diction and a post-diction using equivalent frame approach

Katrin Beyer, Igor Tomic

The SERA project AIMS (Seismic Testing of Adjacent Interacting Masonry Structures) comprised a blind prediction competition related to a shake-table test of an aggregate of two buildings under two horizontal components of dynamic excitation. Each group was ...

2022

Blind predictions of shake table testing of aggregate masonry buildings

Katrin Beyer, Andrea Penna, Igor Tomic

In many historical centers in Europe, stone masonry is part of building aggregates, which developed when the layout of the city or village was densified. The analysis of such building aggregates is very challenging and modelling guidelines missing. Advance ...

2021

Design and temporal issues in Soil Bioengineering structures for the stabilisation of shallow soil movements

Giovanni De Cesare, Massimiliano Schwarz

In the last decades, soil bioengineering has gained considerable popularity worldwide, especially in hillslope, riverbank, and earth embankment stabilisation works. The use of plants as a building material transfers the plant multifunctionality within engi ...

2021

Transformations silencieuses : étude sur l'architecture alpine

Patrick Giromini

This thesis addresses the question of abandonment in architecture, not in its negative sense of desertion, but as a possibility offered to buildings which have lost their original purpose, which is to say those buildings from social and economic contexts w ...

EPFL2021

Blind predictions of shake table testing of aggregate masonry buildings

Katrin Beyer, Andrea Penna, Igor Tomic

In many historical centers in Europe, stone masonry is part of building aggregates, which developed when the layout of the city or village was densified. The analysis of such building aggregates is very challenging and modelling guidelines missing. Advance ...

2020

A Contribution to the Design of Textile Reinforced Concrete Structures

Patrick Lorenzo Valeri

The reduction of green-house gas emissions is one of the global challenges that our society is facing and the production of cement plays a major role because concrete is the most used material worldwide. For every 1000 kg of cement produced, 900 kg of CO2, ...

EPFL2020

Experimental investigations on the load-carrying capacity of digitally produced wood-wood connections

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Jean-François Bocquet

The rise of digital fabrication has increased the use of wood-wood connections inspired by traditional carpentry in modern timber constructions. With recent developments on standard construction systems, the mechanical behavior of such joints for in-plane ...

2020

Active renovation strategies with building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV). Application on an early 20th century multi-family building

Emmanuel Rey, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

Tomorrow's cities are already largely built, as much of the existing building stock – with a low level of energy performance – will still be standing in 2050. Urban renewal processes therefore play an essential role towards the sustainable transition of Eu ...

2020

Architectural Design Strategies for Building-Integrated Photovoltaics in residential building renovation processes

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

Tomorrow's European cities are already largely built, as much of the existing building stock ¿ with a low level of energy performance ¿ will still be standing in 2050. Urban renewal processes therefore play an essential role towards their sustainable trans ...

EPFL2019

Designing Energy-Efficient Façades to Meet Energy Transition Targets

Angela Clua Longas

The contemporary energy context can be considered as a period of energy transition, where the latest protocols focus on limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improving energy efficiency across the different energy consumption sectors. As the largest ...

EPFL2019

Built-in, exposed or concealed comfort services. Attempts (incomplete) to industrialise collective housing after 1945

Giulia Marino

Simultaneous consideration of active devices – especially mechanical heating and ventilation – and passive devices – including insulation and waterproofing of building envelopes – was one of the most notable aspects of studies of the management of physiolo ...

CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group2018

Restoring Jean Prouvé. The “Buvette” at Evian and other technical objects

Giulia Marino

Completed in 1957, the new buvette (pump room) of the Source Cachat in Evian-les-Bains is to be classed among twentieth-century icons. The building was the outcome of a fruitful partnership be-tween an experienced architect, Maurice Novarina, an “inspired ...

Docomomo International and Docomomo Slovenia2018

The multiple lives of the “Unité d’Habitation” (1945-1967-2017). Repetition of their iconic value and differences in the construction systems, from their development to their case histories

Franz Graf

The Unités d’Habitation designed by Le Corbusier and André Wogenscky represent an exceptional moment in the development of the culture of housing in the 20th century1. Five examples of them were built – at Marseilles (1945-1952), Rezé (1948-1955), Berlin ( ...

Docomomo International and Docomomo Slovenia2018

CFD as an Enginer's Tool for Investigation of Large-Scale-Flow-Phenomena "at Land, Sea and Air"

Michel Deville

Along with prospective fashion of solving the engineering-tasks (if development would allow us a such approach while answering the technology-questions of some project in future), goes alternatively corrective performance of those engineering tools, used t ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2018

Low Carbon Pathways for Structural Design

Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf

To avoid an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, a depletion of resources, and waste accumulation, structural engineers have a major role to play in low carbon structural design. For example, cement- based materials represent one-third of all materials ex ...

2018

Application of a Point Estimate Method for incorporating the epistemic uncertainty in the seismic assessment of a masonry building

Katrin Beyer, Francesco Vanin

Several sources of uncertainty affect the assessment of existing buildings, including uncertainties associated with the material properties and the displacement capacity of the elements. In engineering practice, Monte Carlo simulations of the nonlinear sei ...

2018

Advanced Active Façades : The construction of a full-scale demonstrator for BIPV architectural integration

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Angela Clua Longas

In most European countries, new energy directives on building performance have been developed as a consequence of unsustainable greenhouse gas emissions. These norms promote active and passive energy strategies to lower the environmental impact of the buil ...

2018