LIPID is involved in the teaching of courses from bachelor’s to doctoral level with an emphasis on project-based approaches in the perspective of linking building performance aspects with architectural design implications.
LIPID has initiated, in a collaboration with LAST, a new orientation “Integrated Design Architecture and Sustainability” (IDEAS) which are offered at both the master’s level and the doctoral level. It was introduced at the master’s level in the form of a minor (IDEAS Minor) in the fall of 2013 and at the doctoral level through an orientation introduced in the summer of 2012.
Note: Open proposals for student projects are listed here.
Bachelor level
This course articulates itself around light as a structuring element of space and time, through an approach that intertwines sun dynamics, materiality, construction and ecological footprint.
ENAC
Teachers: Andersen Marilyne, Aguacil Moreno Sergi, Aebischer Evelyne, Paule Bernard
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Academic term: 2024-2025
Master level
This class offers an overview about comfort evaluations in architectural design and suggests passive and low-energy strategies suited to ensure the highest possible indoor environment quality for buildings.
Section of Architecture
Teachers: Pastore Luisa, Wienold Jan, Andersen Marilyne
Language: english
Academic term: 2024-2025
This course will support students in integrating daylight concepts into their ongoing studio projects. With an emphasis on the perceptual, qualitative, and emotional aspects of daylight, the objective is to achieve an awareness of how daylight both shapes and is shaped by architecture.
Section of Architecture
Teachers: Cho Yunjoung, Andersen Marilyne, Wasilewski Stephen William
Language: english
Academic term: 2024-2025
This course is based on the team design of a temporary, mobile and sustainable theater. A pedagogical approach which will focus on the introduction of the concepts of sustainability applied to the design of a project with a short life span.
Section of Architecture
Teachers: Rey Emmanuel, Fivet Corentin Jean Dominique, Pastore Luisa, Regazzoni Oliver Luca, Andersen Marilyne
Language: french
Academic term: 2024-2025
Doctoral level
The axis “Integrated Design Architecture and Sustainability” (IDEAS) is a joint initiative of both the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID) and Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) at EPFL. It responds to a need to further reinforce the integration of sustainable architecture questions within the framework of the Doctoral program Architecture & Science of the city (EDAR) as well as a to strengthen exchanges and synergies between the three institutes of ENAC. Towards this end, it lies on one hand on a new interdisciplinary education offer in the form of seminars and workshops, and on the other hand on a networking structure for EPFL PhD students.