Book launch of GREEN DENSITY
Book launch GREEN DENSITY © O. WAVRE | EPFL | LAST 2013
Edited at the Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes (PPUR), the book GREEN DENSITY presents six original visions elaborated at the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) for the Waldstadt sector in Bern. By an interdisciplinary approach at various intervention scales - from urban design to constructive detail - they aim at experimenting, assessing and comparing various urban shapes in a perspective of urban sustainability. The book launch will take place on November 19th, 2013 at 6:30 pm (free entry) at the Forum d’architectures de Lausanne (f'ar).
In a context of questioning urban sprawl, sites likely to welcome new residents and jobs close to public transport are acquiring a particularly strategic status. Their densification makes it possible to consider the creation of new mixed neighborhoods as a contribution to a more sustainable built environment.
Wooded strip of land bordering the city of Bern and separated from the Bremgarten forest by the highway, the Waldstadt sector on which the research and teaching work presented in GREEN DENSITY focuses, constitutes an investigation field particularly well adapted to the exploration of these issues. The book presents in particular six visions elaborated at the laboratory starting off with student works carried out within the framework of the architectural design studio of Prof. Emmanuel Rey. From complementary approaches, they aim at experimenting, comparing and assessing various possible urban shapes for the development of such a site.
Thematic perspectives intertwine in the frame formed by the six visions. Outcome of a close attention by invited experts from different disciplines and backgrounds, these contributions present environmental, energy, sociological or economic aspects characterizing the creation of new strategic urban neighborhoods.
The book lunch will include short speeches by Prof. Marilyne Andersen, Dean of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Prof. Luca Ortelli, Head of the Institute of Architecture and the City (IA) and Prof. Emmanuel Rey, Head of the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST). The exhibition that accompanies this book launch will take place from 22nd November to 8th December 2013 during opening hours of the f'ar.
Green Density | Emmanuel Rey (Ed.)
Preface by Pascal Gontier.
Contributions by Marilyne Andersen, Michael R. Doyle, Vincent Kaufmann, Romain Kilchherr, Sophie Lufkin, Emilie Nault, Emmanuel Rey, Philippe Thalmann and Marie-Paule Thomas.
Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2013, 192 pages.
ISBN 978-2-88915-021-2.