FEB 2024 Distinction
Urbanités familiales © EPFL / PDM Benjamin Porcher
The master's project entitled “Urbanités familiales”, developed by Benjamin Porcher, was awarded the FEB 2024 Distinction by the Groupe spécialisé pour la conservation des ouvrages (GCO) of the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA). Each year, this distinction is given to academic projects dealing in an exemplary way with issues relating to the management, adaptation, and conservation of existing buildings.
Since its foundation in 1994, the GCO has provided an interdisciplinary platform for all those involved in the conservation of buildings. The GCO is aimed at architects, civil engineers, and specialists who, as designers, builders, operators, or owners, are concerned with the conservation of buildings. Conservation of structures includes measures such as refurbishment, adaptation to new requirements, reuse, partial replacement, or extension.
Chosen among some sixty applications from all over Switzerland, Benjamin Porcher's master's project, entitled “Urbanités familiales”, provides a renewed analysis of density in the Parisian context and an architectural proposal within the existing fabric to contribute to the climatic and social adaptation of our cities. The follow-up group of this theoretical statement and master project consisted of Prof. Emmanuel Rey (supervisor, LAST), Prof. Corentin Fivet (professor, SXL), and Sophie Lufkin (mentor, LAST).