06 May 2024
18:00 - 20:00
Foyer SG EPFL
Zoom ID 690 1537 6857
The Habitat Research Center is very pleased to welcome Dilip da Cunha for his seminar “Decolonizing wetness: it is where design begins.”
In 2017, Mathur and Da Cunha initiated a design platform called Ocean of Wetness directed to imaging and imagining habitation in ubiquitous wetness rather than on a land-water surface. (www.mathurdacunha.com) In 2017, they were awarded a Pew Fellowship Grant and in 2021, the Mercedes T. Bass Landscape Architects in Residence Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. In 2020, da Cunha was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Ocean of Rain, which is an upcoming book and exhibition.
Dilip da Cunha is an architect and an Adjunct Professor at the GSAPP, Columbia University. He is author with Anuradha Mathur of Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (2001); Deccan Traverses: The Making of Bangalore’s Terrain (2006); Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary (2009); and editor of Design in the Terrain of Water (2014). In 2019, his book, The Invention of Rivers: Alexander’s Eye and Ganga’s Descent, was published by University of Pennsylvania Press.
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We are happy to announce the launch of , The Political Economy of Space Vol. 1 edited by @charlottemalterrebarthes. This first volume of a forthcoming series by RIOT @riot_epfl presents a cross-section of positions on and its and explores ways to correct course in the face of a of unprecedented magnitude—beyond .
Date: April 23rd
Time: 6:30 p.m
Venue: EPFL, Archizoom
A Conversation with @aliabenganaarchitecte @dorodorodorodorodoro @kathlyn.kao @charlottemalterrebarthes at @archizoomepfl
Texts by: Meriem Chabani @newsouth___ , Marc Angélil, Cary Siress @agps_architecture, Jennifer Newsom, Tom Carruthers @dreamthecombine, Architecture Climate Action Network @architectscan
Year of publication: 2024
Editor: Charlotte Malterre-Barthes @charlottemalterrebarthes
Managing Editor: Kathlyn Kao @kathlyn.kao
Project Management: Dorothee Hahn @hatjecantzverlag
Graphic Design: Fernanda Tellez Velasco
Copyediting: Irene Schaudies
Production: Alise Ausmane
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
↗ Publication on livingarchives.epfl.ch
↗ Website RIOT riot.today
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22 avril 2024.
Jalons pour un urbanisme de la coexistence
Table ronde animée par Luca Pattaroni, professeur en Sociologie urbaine à l’EPFLausanne avec Paula Vigano, professeur d’urbanisme à l’EPFLausanne, en compagnie de de Chiara Cavalieri, architecte et professeure à l’UC Louvain et Ben Gitai, architecte et chercheur à l’EPFLausanne
De 18h30 à 20h, au Commun
Dans cette rencontre, nous proposons d’explorer, à partir de l’eau, la manière dont le vivant peut être accueilli dans une pensée et une pratique renouvelée de l’urbanisme, transformant en profondeur nos visions des futurs territoires. Nous interrogerons collectivement différentes tentatives en cours pour concevoir et représenter les territoires de la transition à la croisée de l’architecture, la biologie, l’anthropologie mais aussi l’économie et le politique. Il ne s’agit plus seulement d’enchanter le monde mais de façonner les spatialités de nos coexistences à venir. @utopiana.geneve
From the teaching module «Still Life - Color Shots». A series of abstract model scenes based on a free arrangement of analogue objects and colour photographic reproduction thereof.
Teaching Module: Still Life - Color Shots .
Technique: Analog Model & Photography.
Course: AR-329: «Constructing the View: Built Images».
Context: School of Architeure. ENAC. EPFL.
Semester: Fall 2023
Work by: LIZ WELTER
Course directed by Philipp Schaerer
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stilllife photography
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From the teaching module «Still Life - Color Shots». A series of abstract model scenes based on a free arrangement of analogue objects and colour photographic reproduction thereof.
Teaching Module: Still Life - Color Shots .
Technique: Analog Model & Photography.
Course: AR-329: «Constructing the View: Built Images».
Context: School of Architeure. ENAC. EPFL.
Semester: Fall 2023
Work by: LIZ WELTER
Course directed by Philipp Schaerer
org
stilllife photography
@epflarchitecture
From the teaching module «Still Life - Color Shots». A series of abstract model scenes based on a free arrangement of analogue objects and colour photographic reproduction thereof.
Teaching Module: Still Life - Color Shots .
Technique: Analog Model & Photography.
Course: AR-329: «Constructing the View: Built Images».
Context: School of Architeure. ENAC. EPFL.
Semester: Fall 2023
Work by: LIZ WELTER
Course directed by Philipp Schaerer
org
stilllife photography
@epflarchitecture
VISITE GUIDÉE DE L’EXPOSITION
LUNDI 22 AVRIL 2024 17h00
Nous vous proposons une déambulation à travers les zones grises situées entre deux extrêmes idéologiques : le solutionnisme par la technologie de pointe, le « high tech » et son antonyme, le « low tech ». Wild Tech, Live Tech, Transfer Tech, Solar Tech… vous découvrirez une série de contributions historiques et contemporaines, venant aussi bien d’architectes que d’anthropologues ou d’artistes, pour repenser notre rapport au bâti et à la technologie, au delà des dichotomies et clivages disciplinaires.
Sur inscription, lien dans notre bio 👆🏻
👉🏻 Suivie de la conférence Wild Tech par Nicolas Nova, en discussion avec Tiphaine Abenia.
1. Felix Trombe, Laboratoire Perché, Mont-Louis, France, 1949
2. Frei Otto, Ökohaus, Berlin, 1987-1991
3. Osamu Ishiyama Laboratory, Ryozo Umezawa structural engineers, Setagaya-Mura, Tokyo, 1997
Maquettes
Antoine Angeard, Michaël Aydogan, Melchior Dechancé, Sylvain Destouches, Antoine Foehrenbacher, Dimitri Kasparian, Mike Lerjen et Mélanie Schroff
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Commissaire invitée
@sophiedars @accattone_magazine
Avec la participation de Carlo Menon
Commissaire Archizoom
Roxane Le Grelle @roxane.l.g
Avec la collaboration de Solène Hoffmann
Photographies maquettes
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@epflarchitecture @epflculture @epflcampus @fondationcub @espazium.ch @jevaisauxmusees
@dim._k @melchior_dech @sylvaindestouches @tchoupi_whore @michhaaaaa @schroffmelanie
architecture
Vers un usage raisonné des ressources
Marlene Leroux, associée de l’ATELIER ARCHIPLEIN à Genève, était l’invité de l’atelier du Prof. Emmanuel Rey du Laboratoire d’architecture et technologies durables (LAST) pour parler de son travail d’architecte à travers une sélection de projets. Intitulée « Construction durable : Vers un usage raisonné des ressources », sa conférence a permis aux étudiantes et étudiants de découvrir des projets se confrontant notamment aux enjeux constructifs et de durabilité de l’utilisation de pierre massive.
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crédit photo : @11_h_45
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/vers-un-usage-raisonne-des-ressources-5/
April 9 2024
Open Field Lunches Landscape Habitats
Cultural Landscapes
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Ph: @annakarlaalmeida
PIER VITTORIO AURELI (Dogma @dogma.name) will join us online to discuss his book Platforms and research on the ground.
Pier Vittorio Aureli is an architect, painter, and educator. He studied at the Istituto di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV) and, later, at the Berlage Institute and TU Delft, where he earned his PhD. He currently teaches at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where he directs the Laboratory Theory and Project of Domestic Space. Aureli is the author of several books, including The Project of Autonomy (2008), The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (2011), Less is Enough (2013), and Architecture and Abstraction (2023). Together with Martino Tattara, he is the co-founder of Dogma, an office for architecture based in Brussels.
AAVS Rio summer course, 20-27 July 2024, in person, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Open to students from all universities worldwide and young designers.
Limited availability!
Apply now: https://bit.ly/36QR4Go
Talk to us: aavs.rio@aaschool.ac.uk
architecture
Hugo Ferreira
Urban Reliefs
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University: EPFL Architecture @epflarchitecture, Semester project, Fall 2023
Collaboration: Marie De Taisne
Scales: 1/100, 1/500
Photography: Bogdan Kulyk aspimiette
Description: Urban Reliefs is a study project within the @last_epfl workshop. He studies the potential of sloping sites such as Beau Site above the town of Vevey.
As part of this project we were led to conceptualize a neighborhood of 350 inhabitants, with spaces dedicated to local agriculture, as well as co-working and catering spaces.
photography students
Avec leur invitée Maria, une ingénieure EPFL de 28 ans qui fait du yoga et du forró, les Poissons peuvent enfin laisser libre court à leur anticapitalisme, du moins pendant quelques heures.
Au micro des Poissons, Maria raconte son cheminement d’études dans cette institution fédérale à renommée mondiale, sa transition vers le monde du travail dans une start-up et le burn-out qu’elle a traversé.
Avec beaucoup d’humour puisque c’est connu que les poissons son drôles, Lirëza qui a également fait l’EPFL réalise à quel point Maria et elle ont des choses en commun, pendant que Coraline qui cherche actuellement du travail se déchaine sur les valeurs douteuses qui s’affichent dans la plupart des annonces d’emploi.
En croisant ce sujet avec des dynamiques de genres, se créé une discussion si intéressante, que nous nous réjouissons carrément pour vous.
Pleins de bisous des Poissons, si consentis. architecture sv
Abonnez-vous ou suivez-nous sur :
https://www.patreon.com/lespoissonssansbicyclettes
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https://shows.acast.com/les-poissons-sans-bicyclettes
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqd_tdQuItJJT0HQ_Tri5xg
Open Field Lunches Landscape Habitats
9 April 2024
12:15 -13:30 BP 3127
Cultural Landscapes
In the ongoing socio-ecological transition occurring globally, it is vital to consider the social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of a place. Currently, territories worldwide are experiencing a significant phase of urbanization, which brings the study of human-climate interactions within cultural landscapes to the forefront as a critical area of research. During this seminar, an additional area of interest is understanding how cities, in different contexts, are integrating the cultural and aesthetic elements of landscapes, and creating impactful infrastructures across broad areas while transforming the nature of the city’s landscape and its territorial extent.
Moreover, foregrounding this dynamic relationship between humans, land, urban fabric, and climate while examining cultural landscapes, can provide a unique and valuable perspective. This approach could facilitate a comprehensive investigation of how planning can enhance the resilience and self-sufficiency of cities in relation to their territories and their cultural heritage. Part of this exploration involves examining the evolution of aesthetic norms in response to changes in climate, societal dynamics, and the usage of these cultural landscapes.
Program
Introduction- Cultural Landscapes - Dr.Ben Gitai HRC - EPFL.
“Landscape versus urban landscape” - Prof. em. Pieter Uyttenhove, Ghent University.
“Anthropological Insights into the Cultural Heritage and Landscape Surrounding Beijing’s Forbidden City”, Dr. Florence Graezer Bideau, Senior Scientist, HAT Research Group, CDH - EPFL and scientific committee member HRC - EPFL.
“Cartographic Inventions and landscapes: Learning from Jerusalem’s 19th Century Mapping Errors” ,Béatrice Vaienti, doctorat student, DHLAB - EPFL.
“Cities Go Wild – Critical Perspectives on Urban Rewilding”, Dr.Ian Florin, Post doctoral researcher, LAND-EPFL.
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Abstract architecture
architecture 🇨🇭
S.O.S. à l’espace public • Archizoom EPFL
projet lauréat 🎉 • concours project room, 2021.
réalisation : Atelier La Grange
architecture
Becoming Leman, by Laboratoire ALICE EPFL (Dieter Dietz Daniel Zamarbide and approximatively 160 students) as coproduced by and for OPEN HOUSE in 2021 (extended until 2023), Parc Lullin, Genthod, Geneva, Switzerland
@openhousegeneva 2022
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@alice_epfl @epflcampus @epflarchitecture @daniel_zamarbide photos: @simon_lamuniere and thierry parrel
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MODEL in SPACE, 2024
Artificial Architecture: Machines and Dystopian dreams – Symposium & Studio Review | March 25th | 09:00 – 18:30 | Spring Semester 2021
We are excited to extend an invitation to you to join our upcoming architecture studio mid-review and the symposium Artificial Architecture, scheduled for Monday, March 25th, 2024.
Artificial Architecture showcases five years of pioneering work by the EPFL Media and Design Lab, exploring the fusion of architecture and artificial intelligence. This exhibition presents immersive projections, live prototypes, and a larger-than-life-sized “design brain,” highlighting the vast potential and nuanced challenges AI introduces to architectural design. It critically examines the transformative impact of Generative AI, from encoding the essence of architectural imagery to uncovering subtleties invisible to the naked eye.
The studio "Housing X+Y” adopts Generative AI (stable diffusion and control nets) as a critical tool in the typological design process. It examines the traditional "Lausanne Urban Villa” typology (les “plots"), questions their programmatic obsolescence and explores their transformation into hybrid forms where living, working, and various social activities converge within a single space.
Together with the studio review, the symposium serves as both as an opportunity for broader discourse on the intersection of architecture and artificial intelligence and to review the student’s efforts. It will revolve around the overarching question "Generative AI in Architecture - Panacea or Dystopian Dream?”
Guests | Sarah Kenderdine, Chantal Matar @chantal.matar , Nicole McIntosh @nicole.mcintosh , Georg Vrachliotis @georgvrachliotis , Rui Filipe Pinto @arch_rfp
23.3 11:00 – 18:00 Discovery Day
25.3 09:00 – 17:00 Studio Review
25.3 17:00 – 18:30 Symposium Artificial Architecture
25.3 18:30 – 20:00 Opening Apero
More information on the schedule will be available at memento.epfl.ch.
pavilion
reboots, prequels, sequels and spin-offs on acetate
@aliceepfl
RESONANCE / CONSTELLATIONS
210 students projects printed on acetate
! ORDINAIRE TERRESTREVIRAL FAIRE ECHO ZONE PUNCTUM CURIOSO ALTIPLANO
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[EPFL STUDIO MAS UTD Final Projects]
Resurfacing Water and Its Stories: The Emergence of a Socio-ecological Threshold for an Urban Watershed
Lausanne as a city and territory is a landscape shaped by water, featuring a complex water system above and below ground. This project examines that territory through water’s perspective, bringing attention back to the physical and mental presence water and its narratives.
As a vital component of the environment, water promotes the well-being of entire ecosystems. The Flon watershed at the core of the centre is characterised by canalised rivers and water management contained underground.
The project attempts to construct a new urban surface watershed, challenging the preconceptions associated with urban surface waters, engaging in a discussion on the compromises necessary to give agency to water and ameliorate the natural environment within urban watersheds. We reflect on the importance of ecological balance and the need to move beyond anthropocentric views in environmental management.
Team: Diana Zarnescu, Erze Dinarama, and Gautham Ramesh
Find all the projects in the link in our bio!
Remembering that the next call for participation for 2024-2025 is open.
Apply now!
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We are very excited to welcome Corentin Fivet – Professor of architecture and structural design at the Structural Xploration Lab EPFL, Lausanne – to our Constructive Conversations event today from 6:00-7:30 pm CET!.
Corentin Fivet will give a lecture on „Waste No More – The needed (re-)discovery of the intrinsic value of disused construction products“.
Join us at the hybrid event!
📅 Tuesday, March 19, 2024
🕕 6:00-7:30 pm CET
📍 ILEK, Pfaffenwaldring 14, University of Stuttgart
🔗 in bio or visit the website for detailed information (hybrid event):
tinyurl.com/yre9hm78
// Lecture Abstract
The construction sector stands out as a major contributor to Earth’s pollution levels. Yet there is a growing trend for buildings to be demolished, even though their components are in excellent condition. The reuse of these components in new construction activities represents a circular strategy offering significant environmental benefits, including reduced greenhouse gas emissions, waste, and material extraction. While this approach has yet to reach its full industrial potential, it is reshaping designers‘ workflows and prompting the development of new computational methods and construction processes. After a contextualization of the current state of practice, Prof. Corentin Fivet will discuss recent research outputs from EPFL’s Structural Xploration Lab and their potential societal impact, with a focus on the reuse of obsolete timber, steel, and concrete elements in new building structures.
💡 The access data for this event is available to AdvanceAEC members. All researchers working in the field of AdvanceAEC are warmly invited to join the network.
👉 advanceaec.net
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Are you an EPFL researcher interested in presenting your research? The Habitat Research Center is pleased to ‘open’ its three research fields to discussion during three lunch seminars: Healthy Habitats, Productive Habitats, and Landscape Habitats. Offering opportunities for interdisciplinary discussions around urbanization, the Open Fields Lunches aim to foster new collaborations within the EPFL scientific community.
Each meeting will be moderated by a member of the HRC or its affiliated laboratories, and will consist of a presentation by an international expert in the field, followed by presentations by two EPFL researchers interested in sharing and discussing their research. The seminar will conclude with a debate open to all the lunch participants.
Submit your contribution by sending a short abstract and title (max. 200 words) to habitat@epfl.ch. Important dates:
Landscape Habitats
Tuesday 9th April 2024
Deadline: 19th March 2024
Healthy Habitats
Tuesday 7th May 2024
Deadline: 16th April 2024
Productive Habitats
Tuesday 4th June 2024
Deadline: 12th May 2024
“Cultural Landscapes”
How cities, in different contexts, are integrating the cultural and aesthetic elements of landscapes, and creating impactful infrastructures across broad areas while transforming the nature of the city’s landscape and its territorial extent?
“Healthy Habitats in a broken planet: how to Design with care and for whom?”
Under the planetary pressure of Transitioning, designing with care is paramount. How to design Healthy Habitats while sharing the responsibility for caring for our world?
Productive Habitats – “Material and Societal Change”
The lunch will explore the production of space and its patterns of material extraction and consumption. How does the construction industry respond to today’s critical socio-ecological issues? And how do design practices deal with this issue?
Link on Bio for all the complete information for all the chosen topics this year!
@habitat_epfl @epflarchitecture @epflenac
Freedom!
News in Switzerland:
Un doctorant affirme que l’EPFL a supprimé des e-mails (Doctoral student claims EPFL deleted emails)
https://www.24heures.ch/conflit-un-doctorant-affirme-que-lepfl-a-supprime-des-e-mails-793270407168
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