Innovative design strategies for local energy self-reliance at the district scale by integrating issues related to buildings, infrastructures, mobility and food.
Within a context of growing effort to develop sustainability strategies in the built environment, the reduction of the energy consumption is one of the core challenges. In this perspective, the research project entitled “Symbiotic Districts” aims to develop a new design and calculation methodology for creating symbiotic districts in the Swiss urban context.
The research explores the scientific, technical, urban development and architectural dimensions that influence local energy and resource self-reliance at the district scale. The transposal of industrial ecology tools to the field of urban planning will allow the integration of energy issues related to habitat, activities, infrastructure, mobility and food.
Research Partners
Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST), Industrial Ecology Group of the Institute of Land Use Policies and Human Environment (IPTEH – UNIL)
Research Team LAST
Prof. Emmanuel Rey, Dr. Sophie Lufkin
Funding
Programme “Collaborative Research on Science and Society” (CROSS)
Book
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STRATEGIES FOR SYMBIOTIC URBAN NEIGHBOURHOODS Sophie Lufkin, Emmanuel Rey, Suren Erkman Springer London, 2016 |
Main publications
Strategies for Symbiotic Urban Neighborhoods. Case study in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland)
Urban Transitions Global Summit 2016, Shanghai, China, September 5-9, 2016.Strategies for Symbiotic Urban Neighbourhoods
London: Springer, 2016.Strategies for Symbiotic Urban Neighborhoods. Case study in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland)
2016. Urban Transitions Global Summit 2016, Shanghai, China, September 5-9, 2016.Autonomie énergétique à l’échelle du quartier
URBAN RECOVERY; Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, 2015. p. 123 – 136.Comparison of strategies improving local energy self-sufficiency at neighborhood Scale. Case study in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland)
2014. 30th international Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Ahmedabad, India, November 16-18, 2014.Quartiers symbiotiques. Stratégies innovantes pour favoriser l’autonomie énergétique à l’échelle du quartier par l’intégration des enjeux relatifs aux bâtiments, aux infrastructures, à la mobilité et à l’alimentation
2014