BLUE CITY RESEARCH SPACE
ALICE has conceived a research space for the Blue City project, led by the LDM laboratory at EPFL. Specific architectural elements were developed to create a contemporary architectural research laboratory where technology and data play a central role.
The floor is covered by an immersive map of Lausanne as to offer a situated projection surface. A system of modular tables, conceived to foster interaction as much as individual work stand on wheels, encouraging users to adapt their working space daily. Oversized cushions on wheels provide a nest for breaks or daydreaming, while metallic structures, also on wheels, can support a screen, changing its position from vertical to horizontal to multiply the kinds of screen interractions.
The Blue City Project is an Innosuisse Flagship Project led by Professor Jeffrey Huang of the Media and Design Laboratory (LDM). The project involves research partners from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Institute for Sustainable Energy, HES-SO (HES.SO Sion), University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) and nine implementation partners from industry. The goal of the project is to map multi-layered, interconnected networks of urban flows in the living lab of Lausanne, thus exploring the possibilities of open digital twin platforms for proactive urban planning, supported by visualization, data science, and artificial intelligence.
ALICE TEAM
Telmo Alves Luis, Dieter Dietz, Julie Meyer, Claire Logoz, Malcolm Onifadé, Rubén Valdez
PHOTOGRAPHY
Julien Heil