Contribution to the Positions exhibition
Positions Exhibition © LAST / T. Beuret
Entitled "Transcalar Prospect in Climate Crisis", the Positions exhibition this year focuses on research activities carried out at EPFL Architecture. For the occasion, the Laboratory for Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) is presenting the research projects RHODANIE URBAINE and WORKING SPACE, representative of the work being carried out on the regeneration of urban territories, from the neighborhoods in transition to the innovative components. The exhibition, which runs until July 28 in the Archizoom gallery, will invite a wide audience to discover the various contributions.
Research at the LAST aims to contribute to transitions of urban territories towards sustainability by integrating environmental, socio-cultural, and economic parameters in the architectural project. The research projects fall within the broader context of quality; they focus on supporting the emergence of new knowledge, revealing the potential for innovation potential that can be transposed into architectural production, and identifying optimization processes of building transformation. the approach is based on a holistic, interdisciplinary, and evaluative method by searching convergent strategies at the different scales of intervention for the architect, from the neighborhood to the building component.
To reflect this approach, the LAST present two research projects at both ends of the scales’ spectrum: RHODANIE URBAINE region, city, and neighborhood scales and WORKING SPACE building and components scales. Concrete results are shown through project models along with multicriteria evaluations.
The exhibition is also an opportunity for Dr. Martine Laprise, scientist at the LAST, to talk in an interview about the relationship between architecture and research, and the role of the latter in meeting the current challenges of climate change.