Construction durable ou l'utilité cachée de l'inutile
Marlène 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 ou l'utilité cachée de l’inutile », 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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Grown out of my greenHouses research and the ongoing design studio 🌿, Greenhouse Studies is (also) part of the exhibition “Sun Shines in Architecture”, one of the three exhibitions of The Solar Biennale 2025. Our contribution features 34 greenhouse-houses case studies, handpicked 📌 from 1900 to 1999.
🚨 Another personal note alert 🚨 It’s really rewarding to see every case-study come together — it’s the result of truly engaging work by our students in the design studio at Laboratory EAST. Each one took on a different case study, and the outcome is visually super strong!
Drop a 💚 because their work deserves it! Thank you all, in particularly to Luciano Antonietti.
You can visit these 'houses' until 21.06.2025 at EPFL as part of The Solar Biennale ☀️
Drawings and models by this ✨ unbeatable team [Bachelor students] Julie Berger, Hafsa Boudhir, Tristan Combépine, Maeva Eap, Emma Fournier, Mara Giacomelli, Yasmine Helfand, Anis Kabeche, Rosemary Lefebvre, Joana Mendes, German Moskovitch, Moreno Osorio, Léa Roberts, Lili Rouveure, Marion Schaub, Léo Taillefer, Nikita Turelli, Arwen Wohlwend, [Master students] Niklas Amft, Matheu Bosch, Julie Bron, Andrea Calabrese, Emil Cayouette, Lise Courtin, Sacha Cudré-Maruoux, Emma Fong-Lesage, Selma Gaumet, Irem Keskin, Mélinda Pereira, Félix Pleines, Joshua Rigby, Jérémy Steyaert, Valentina Takatch, Julia Weber.
Pics 2,4,5,6 and 8 📷 Solène Hoffman. Thank you Solène!
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Hello readers! Dropping some posts with updates from the past couple of months at EPFL. We’re leading a design studio on greenhouses: Greenhouse Studies 🌿 at Laboratory EAST. Personal note alert 🚨 I feel really lucky to have such a great group of students working on this topic—huge props to them! 🙏
Here’s a short teaser 👇 and a few pictures of the first weeks
“What is a greenhouse without the green? Or a ‘jardin d’hiver’ without winter? As part of the ‘Tackle The Type’ series, the design studio for bachelor BA6 and master MA2 students will explore greenhouses from a typological perspective and study its architecture as a set of climatic conditions, beyond its formal and functional characteristics.”
To be continued...
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Critique intermédiaire de l’atelier RELIEFS URBAINS
Cette semaine, les critiques intermédiaires se déroulent dans l'atelier du Prof. Emmanuel Rey au Laboratoire d'architecture et technologies durables (LAST). Les étudiantes et étudiants façonnent des cadres de vie en résonnance avec leur environnement, en tissant des liens subtils entre formes bâties, usages et seuils entre espaces publics et privés.
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SCHOOL LECTURE 3/7
Tuesday, April 1, Foyer SG, 6:30 pm
HOUSING VOL.2
Housing and Reuse: Six Exemplary Projects
INGE VINCK
Friant, about this and that and so on
Une maison existante; un bâtiment 'moderne'. Une façade comme une grille de fenêtres. Des trop grandes fenêtres et de nombreux noeuds de construction. L'isolement comme une boîte dans la boîte est impossible. L'inverse comme solution; une maison dans une maison. Une nouvelle façade derrière l'existante pour résoudre les noeuds de construction et créer de la distance ou de l'espace face à la rue.
Inge Vinck is a Belgian architect based in Ghent; co-founder of architecten jan de vylder inge vinck. / inge vinck jan de vylder architecten (A JDVIV / IVJDV A- 2019). Currently Inge Vinck is professor at the Baukunstklasse of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and member of the board of 019 Gent/Smoke and Dust vzw.
architecten jan de vylder inge vinck/ inge vinck jan de vylder architecten (AJDVIV/IVJDVA) is today a multidisciplinary practice in which the making and the thinking is deeply imbedded. Many ongoing projects - drawing table and under construction - are alternating with all kind of reflections- drawings and writings -. New horizons are explored - international and research wise -. Profound positions are taken - the interest in drawing but also in debating the essence of urge today -. AJDVIV/IVJDVA is an architecture practice rich by many different previous trajectories. Inge Vinck was cofounder of jan de vylder architecten (JDV A – 2007/2010) and architecten de vylder vinck taillieu (A DVVT – 2010/2019)
Project images by Filip Dujardin
Portrait image by Marco Guastalla
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Hannah le Roux will join us on Wednesday, 19.03.2025 for the next lecture in the Neighbors lecture series on History & Theory of Architecture Vol. 5.
In designing human and non-human environments in the majority world from the late 1950s onwards - the beginning of the era of post-colonial independence - architects used sections operatively to augment and delink from colonialism's power to plan. Famously, “tropical" architects introduced the ventilated and shaded section as the site of their mobile expertise. Materially, they also considered new genres of roofing while altering its relationship to the availability of raw materials. Representation in these cases is political, precisely because of the section's potential to delink technology from place and its insidious impacts while narrating progress. The Africa Section is this trope, but I coined the term to also suggest an imaginary bureaucratic office within which Western interests reposition themselves through architectural views.
Images:
“Imaginary Mies van der Rohe house” from Fry, M. and J. Drew, Tropical Architecture in the Humid Zone, London, B.T. Batsford, 1956, p. 66
"Section through Roof and Details of Shingle Table and Stacking Methods” from Housing and Home Finance Agency and Ernst May, Unburned Clay-Thatch Shingle Roofing, Ideas and Methods Exchange 1956 Vol. 36 pp 1-5.
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Fondue lessons on Rat Pass 🫕
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SCHOOL LECTURE 2/7
Tuesday, March 18, Auditorium SG, 6:30 pm
HOUSING VOL.2
Housing and Reuse: Six Exemplary Projects
HARQUITECTES
Organizing matter: Social housing in Palma de Mallorca
The main strategy of the project is to reuse the materials of the old school demolition to construct the new building, with an ‘urban mining’ approach where the resources come mainly from the existing urban plot. The spatial organization and climatic behavior answers to the structural system as a new organization of the existing matter.
Roger Tudó is a principal and founding partner of the architectural firm H ARQUITECTES based in Sabadell (BARCELONA) and founded in 2000 together with David Lorente, Josep Ricart and Xavier Ros. He had been combining his professional activity teaching in the ETSAV-UPC, Harvard GSD and ETH Zurich. Their work has been published in several magazines such as El Croquis, 2G, AV, A+U, Domus, Detail, Casabella, etc. and exhibited at Venice Biennial 2016 in the Spanish Pavilion, awarded with the golden Lion, at Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2019 and at Utzon Center in Aalborg 2021, etc.
Images by Arià Goula
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YEAR 5
Studio Peris+Toral
Housing in Barcelona
02_Site Plan
Group work with: @nieves.clavien & Michelle Lepori
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YEAR 5
Studio Peris+Toral
Housing in Barcelona
03_Inhabited Plan
Group work with: @nieves.clavien & Michelle Lepori
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YEAR 5
Studio Peris+Toral
Housing in Barcelona
04_Thermodynamics
Group work with: @nieves.clavien & Michelle Lepori
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Séminaire Typologie de l’atelier RELIEFS URBAINS
Cette semaine, le séminaire Typologie se déroule dans l'atelier du Prof. Emmanuel Rey au Laboratoire d'architecture et technologies durables (LAST). Chaque étudiante et étudiant explore une typologie de logement adaptée à son projet, affinant l’organisation et la spatialité des bâtiments afin de concevoir un cadre de vie en harmonie avec les atouts du site.
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Projet réalisé dans le cadre de mon atelier d’architecture BA5 à l’EPFL Studio FAR
Women center
Ce projet s’inscrit dans un programme de coopération internationale et porte sur la conception d’un centre pour les femmes à Wau, au Sud-Soudan. Dans une région marquée par la pauvreté, l’instabilité politique et les effets du changement climatique, le projet vise à offrir un espace sûr et fonctionnel pour la santé, l’éducation et l’autonomisation des femmes.
Le centre intègre une clinique ambulatoire, avec des soins dédiés à la santé reproductive et à la maternité, ainsi que des espaces de formation et d’apprentissage. L’architecture repose sur des solutions durables et adaptées au contexte local, en prenant en compte l’utilisation responsable des ressources, l’inclusion et la résilience climatique.
Ce projet questionne également le rôle de l’architecte dans les situations extrêmes et les contextes isolés, tout en explorant la faisabilité économique et la durabilité globale de telles interventions.
Projet réalisé en collaboration avec Perrenoud Florian, Morandini Thomas
Photos prises par @aspimiette ;)
YEAR 5
Studio Peris+Toral
Housing in Barcelona
05_Model
Group work with: @nieves.clavien & Michelle Lepori
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YEAR 5
Studio Peris+Toral
Housing in Barcelona
05_Site Model
Group work with: @nieves.clavien & Michelle Lepori
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YEAR 5
Studio Peris+Toral
Housing in Barcelona
05_Model
Group work with: @nieves.clavien & Michelle Lepori
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YEAR 5
Studio Peris+Toral
Housing in Barcelona
01_Material Atlas
RAMMED EARTH
A research on rammed earth and its virtues.
How to create a room module in the most effective way?
Form work created with hay in the styles of THE TRUFFLE house by Ensamble Studio.
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YEAR 5
Studio Peris+Toral
Housing in Barcelona
01_Material Atlas
RAMMED EARTH
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YEAR 5
Studio Peris+Toral
Housing in Barcelona
01_Material Atlas
RAMMED EARTH
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Formes d’habiter
Jean-Claude Frund, associé du bureau frundgallina architectes à Neuchâtel, 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 « Formes d’habiter », sa conférence a permis aux étudiantes et étudiants de découvrir une variété de projets d’habitation se confrontant à divers contextes et échelles.
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Lausanne, 2017. Bibliothèque de l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, SANAA Architectes.
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NEIGHBOURS – VOL. 5
LECTURES ON HISTORY & THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE
It is a pleasure to announce the of a lecture series established in 2023 by the joint effort of the and . Every semester Neighbours gather and in the field of architectural history to present their work or books. For more information, visit memento.epfl.ch/architecture.
27.2
EYAL WEIZMAN
Forensic Architecture / Goldsmiths University
Conditions of Life Calculated
18.30, Foyer SG
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19.3
HANNAH LEROUX
University of Sheffield
The Africa Section: foreign aid drawings in the development decades
12.30, AAC 020
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2.4
DAVID WENGROW
University College London
Origin Stories: An Archaeological Perspective on Human Freedoms
18.30, CO-1
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16.4
THEODORA VARDOULI
McGill University
“Graph Vision”
12:30, Archizoom Space
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7.5
DEBJANI BHATTACHARYYA
University of Zurich
The Double Commodification of Monsoon: Risk and Cyclone Science
12.30, Archizoom Space
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21.5
GIORGIO GIANIGHIAN
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Towards a Global History of Castelforte San Rocco, Venice (1548-50)
18:30, Archizoom Space
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Hello all!
Next Monday (03.03) the 6th edition of the unlearning center will take place in the SG Foyer from 9 am to 12:30
This time, we will address the topic of the curriculum and ask our selves basic questions: How, What, When, Where, Who, Why do/should we learn?
See you all Monday :)!
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