Research activities School of Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering
The latest publications and projects from the School of Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering.
Publications
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Domschky, Anke; Kurath, Stefan; Mühlebach, Simon; Primas, Urs,
2022.
Densification of urban landscapes : post-war housing developments between preservation and renewal.
Zürich:
Triest.
ISBN 978-3-03863-073-9.
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Fiorentini, Massimo; Vivian, Jacopo; Heer, Philipp; Baldini, Luca,
2022.
In:
CLIMA 2022 The 14th REHVA HVAC World Congress,.
14th RHEVA HVAC World Congress, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 22-25 May 2022.
TU Delft OPEN.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.34641/clima.2022.64
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Lowiner, Christian; Bühler, Michèle; Kurath, Josef,
2022.
Bridge to the Future und Verbindungssteg Campus A : ein Weg in die Zukunft für den Betonbau.
Ernst & Sohn Special : Spezialfälle und Sonderlösungen im Ingenieurbau.
2022, pp. 25-32.
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2022.
Nested networks [paper].
In:
Feliciotti, Alessandra; Fleischmann, Martin, eds.,
Urban Form and the Sustainable and Prosperous City (ISUF 2021), Glasgow, Scotland, 29 June - 3 July 2021.
Glasgow:
University of Strathclyde Publishing.
pp. 219-228.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.17868/80146
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2022.
Fabrikzeitung.
(376), pp. 2.
Available from: https://www.fabrikzeitung.ch/mehr-see/#
Projects
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Potential of buildings for biodiversity and landscape quality in agglomerations
Initial situation: Increasing building density is putting pressure on green spaces and thus on the living conditions for flora, fauna and people. However, the sixth IPPC report and the Covid 19 pandemic clearly demonstrate this: Green spaces that enable recreation and the experience of nature in the immediate ...
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CPC Connections
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Tackling the global housing challenges
In a global context characterised by the governmental withdrawal from the housing sector, the commodification of housing, and the inability of the private sector to cater to the needs of low-?income people, housing cooperatives are being rediscovered as a third way in the provision of affordable housing. However, ...
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How do architects think and design space
The research project pursues one fundamental question: “how do architects think about space?” It builds upon the (yet unproven) assumption that architects have high spatial abilities and spatial knowledge, and asks what the nature of these abilities is. To answer this, we will study spatial abilities among ...
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Urban Edge