Architecture

Reinventing the contemporary city, with Elena Cogato Lanza

Summer series: a calling for research. If you want to predict the future, learn from the past – this saying neatly encapsulates the career of Elena Cogato Lanza, a senior scientist at EPFL and an expert on the history and theory of urban planning.

EPFL architecture students publish their designs in print

EPFL’s first-year architecture students usually have the chance to build full-scale versions of their designs. But this year’s cohort will instead publish a book featuring blueprints for structures along the banks of the Rhône and Arve rivers in Geneva

Crooked to the millimetre

The technology pioneered by the ETH spin-off incon.ai allows blocks to be positioned with pinpoint accuracy, creating structures with aesthetic designs and augmented acoustics.

Showcasing reuse principles at a tram depot and sculpture park

Students from EPFL’s EAST laboratory have installed recycled lights and restrooms at the Bex & Arts sculpture triennial – set to run from 22 June to 18 October – and repurposed parts of a disused tram depot in Bern. Both projects demonstrate the merits of using reclaimed materials.

Energy transition: EPFL spin-off Vizcab raises 1.75 million francs

The French startup will use the injection of capital to ramp up marketing of a building life cycle assessment (LCA) method developed at EPFL Fribourg.

An EPFL lab designs new wooden pews for the Lausanne Cathedral

The Canton of Vaud has selected a technology developed by EPFL's IBOIS Laboratory for the construction of new pews for Lausanne’s Cathedral of Notre Dame. The pews, built with locally-sourced wood, have an innovative design that does not require either glue or screws.

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