DOC.DAYS {EDAR}

2024



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16 & 17 April 2024
13:00 - 18:00 PM CET
ROLEX Learning center – EPFL Switzerland

︎︎︎EDAR is the Doctoral Program in
Architecture and Sciences of the City

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Doc.Days is an event organized to be an open space for discussion of theory, methods, and approaches among EDAR researchers. Diverting from the conventional Lab format, we would like to create a friendly environment where we could learn and enjoy our time together while getting to know each other’s research.

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PROGRAM

16th April 2024 
13:00 - 18:00

Rolex Leraning Center, EPFL Lausanne
FIRST SESSION 
Nitin Bathla, Charlotte Truwant,
Albena Yaneva

Opening Speech
by Elena Cogato Lanza & DocDays Team

13:30-14:10 |
Dorothee Beckendorff (URBDEMO) Human development, basic needs and inter-city out-migration: Subnational perspectives on the mobility transition

14:15-14:55 |
Ella Neumarier (HITAM)
Soil to Air. Alchemical Architecture and the Nitrate Industry between Chile and Germany, circa 1910

15:00-15:40 |
Akuto Akpedze Konou (CEAT)
A “Love Affair” Between Fields, Lands, And Dwellers’ Health In African Cities



SECOND SESSION
Pier Vittorio Aureli, Nitin Bathla,
Albena Yaneva

16:00-16:40 |
Constantinos Marcou (TPOD)
From Bed to Bedroom: The Origins of Horizontality in Domestic Space

16:45-17:25 |
Tanguy Auffret-Postel (TEXAS)
Another Brick in the Wall: The Shifting Nature of the Envelope in Diener & Diener’s Hochstrasse Building

17:30-18:10 |
Tiffanie Paré (THEMA) The Contractor as More-Than Builder: Zschokke and the Built Environment in Switzerland and Beyond, 1909–1981


16th April 2024 
13:00 - 18:00

Rolex Leraning Center, EPFL Lausanne
FIRST SESSION
Torsten Lange, Cara Rachele, Alfredo Thiermann


13:30-14:10 |
Emma Larcelet (LAPIS)
All about design? The continuity of architectural drawing within early computer-aided experiments

14:15-14:55 |
Marcela Delgado (LDM) Life is in the Details: Buildings as Breeding Grounds

15:00-15:40 |
Cristina Roiz de La Parra (ISUP AAM Mendrisio)
Forms of Living


SECOND SESSION
Torsten Lange, Cara Rachele, Sarah Nichols

16:00-16:40 | 
Michela Bonomo (ACHT-TPOD)
The Integral Architect: Villa La Saracena (1958) and Villa Balmain (1960)

16:45-17:25 |
Chloé Joy-Pottuz (FAR)
Timber: a robust construction material for Rapa Nui? Initial fieldwork findings and methodology discussion.

17:30-18:10 |
Célia Küpfer (SXL)
Lessons from FLO:RE,a low-carbon floor mock-up made of discarded reinforced concrete