Habitats in Time - Mapping Geneva's embodied carbon legacy

The Structural Xploration Lab is presenting the first results of its research on the embodied carbon in Geneva, at the doctoral seminar 'Habitats In Time, Mapping Palimpsest Horizons', EPFL. The research, funded by the Habitat Research Center, is one of the two selected projects aiming at bringing multidisciplinary questions in the Time Machine. Together with LASIG and the University of Geneva, SXL's contribution is multilevel: produce and compare life-cycle assessments of typical construction typologies in the greater Geneva from 1815 to now; produce maps of demolitions and carbon efficiency at the regional scale and over time; and allow for a contextualized interpretation/navigation of the results within the 4D Time Machine developed by the DHLab. Results will allow a better understanding of the interrelations between the built environment resource-efficiency and its economic/political/cultural context.