Research in the NSL

Das NSL erforscht die Transformation von Städten, Landschaften, Infrastrukturen und Mobilitätssystemen in einem inter- und transdisziplinären Rahmen. Verschiedene Ansätze werden verknüpft, um nachhaltige, resiliente und sozial gerechte Lösungen zu entwickeln. Im Fokus stehen Infrastruktur- und Verkehrsmanagement, urbane und territoriale Entwicklung, Landschaftsplanung sowie die gesellschaftlichen Dimensionen des Bauens und Wohnens.
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ParkSur – Methodology for evaluating cost and accuracy of parking patrol surveys

Published on: 19. April 2017

Chair: Dr. Monica Menendez | Transport Planning and Systems

In patrol surveys, patrolling observers check the parking area every δ minutes (i.e., at fixed time intervals) and record the plate number of the car…

CSV – Calibration Study for VISSIM

Published on: 19. April 2017

Chair: Dr. Monica Menendez | Transport Planning and Systems

The City of Zürich acquired «Verkehr In Städten – SIMulationsmodell» (VISSIM), a microscopic multi-modal traffic flow simulation software, to effectively model traffic within the city. VISSIM…

Grêt-Regamey: NFP 65 ‐ Progetto «SUPat – Sustainable Urban Patterns»

NFP 65 – Project SUPat: Sustainable Urban Patterns

Published on: 19. April 2017

Chair: Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey | Landscape Planning and Urban Systems

Today’s agglomerations lack the urban qualities that core cities offer in the form of short routes, public spaces and a high density and mix of…

Suburban Open-Space Development – Decision-support systems for sustainability in spatial planning

Published on: 19. April 2017

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Public parks, agricultural and forest areas, traffic zones, sport and leisure facilities, nature reserves, waters: our agglomerations consist of a multitude of unbuilt spaces. In…

Procedural Modelling of Sustainable Urban Patterns – a Case Study of MASDAR

Published on: 19. April 2017

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Innovative procedural modelling methods for the automatic creation of large-scale 3D city models provide unprecedented opportunities to understand and encode urban patterns. They allow easy…

Grêt-Regamey: SUMSOR – Verso una gestione più sostenibile della risorsa suolo attraverso una ridistribuzione dei valori aggiunti e ridotti economici ed ecologici

SUMSOR – Towards a More Sustainable Management of Soil Resources by Redistributing Economic and Ecological Added and Reduced Values

Published on: 19. April 2017

Chair: Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey | Landscape Planning and Urban Systems

Motivation – Preservation of the resource soil The pace and scale of the demand for land is increasing worldwide, as population becomes urban, lifestyles change,…

Grêt-Regamey: OPERAs - Operational Potential of Ecosystems Research Applications

OPERAs – Operational Potential of Ecosystem Research Applications

Published on: 19. April 2017

Chair: Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey | Landscape Planning and Urban Systems

OPERAs is a European research project which aims to bridge the gap between ecosystem science and practice. The project has 27 partners from academic institutions,…

Grêt-Regamey: NFP 68 OPSOL – Un sistema di sostegno decisionale basato su un modello per l'integrazione dei servizi ecosistemici del suolo nelle politiche e nella pianificazione

NFP 68 OPSOL – A Model-based Decision Support System for Integration of Soil Ecosystem Services in Policy and Planning

Published on: 19. April 2017

Chair: Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey | Landscape Planning and Urban Systems

Sustainable land use must coordinate the numerous demands on the soil by considering the functions of the soil. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey and her team developed a…

MOUNTLAND – Sustainable Land Use Practices in Mountain Regions

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey | Landscape Planning and Urban Systems

Mountain ecosystems provide a large array of goods and services, which are highly sensitive to both climatic and land-use changes. The political system with its…

Grêt-Regamey: Pianificazione sostenibile del territorio con PALM

Sustainable Planning with PALM

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey | Landscape Planning and Urban Systems

The current practice of assigning building zones has proven to be unsustainable. In addition to urban sprawl in the landscape, building zone reserves are also…

Grêt-Regamey: VisAsim – Simulation visuelle‐acoustique pour l’évaluation de la compatibilité des parcs éoliens avec le paysage

VisAsim – Visual‐Acoustic Simulation for landscape impact assessment of wind farms

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey | Landscape Planning and Urban Systems

In Europe, renewable energies are strongly exploited for sustainable energy supply. Wind energy is an important energy source. In Switzerland, the development of wind energy…

Brillembourg Klumpner: Hoograven lädt Sie ein

Hoograven Invites You

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. Hubert Klumpner | Architecture and Urban Design

In Hoograven Invites You, project presented last year with the Utrecht Manifest, urban Morocco and urban Holland were compared to extend the frontiers of knowledge…

Lecuna Avenue Revitalization

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. Hubert Klumpner | Architecture and Urban Design

Lecuna Avenue Revitalization project is a master plan linked to the Metro Cable San Agustin; it aims to recover abandoned sites leftover from the construction…

Brillembourg Klumpner: Il Metrocable di Caracas

Caracas Metro Cable

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. Hubert Klumpner | Architecture and Urban Design

Previous experience has shown that the residents of the barrios in Caracas are well-informed and knowledgeable, and possess a firm understanding of what their communities…

Vertical Gymnasium (Gimnasio Vertical™)

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. Hubert Klumpner | Architecture and Urban Design

This project is a prefabricated construction system that explores a modular, structural and vertical arrangement of a series of track and field sports (volleyball, martial…

Portland Aerial Tram, Portland, Oregon

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. Dr. Marc Angélil | Architecture and Urban Design

The city of Portland has initiated a series of planning measures to improve the quality of its urban core and metropolitan area by introducing limits…

Angelil: Il Children’s Museum di Los Angeles, California

Children’s Museum of Los Angeles, California

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. Dr. Marc Angélil | Architecture and Urban Design

Located at the east end of the San Fernando Valley, Hansen Dam is one of five flood control basins within the larger Los Angeles area.…

Urban Development and Poverty – Addis Ababa

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. Dr. Marc Angélil | Architecture and Urban Design

This research project investigates forms of formal and informal urbanization processes against the background of both high-end development projects promoted by foreign and local actors…

Immerge

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture

At the request of the Chur Lake Association and in cooperation with representatives of the city of Chur and the Canton of Graubünden, a rough…

Girot: Gustav Ammann (1885 - 1955) Paesaggi moderni in Svizzera

Gustav Ammann (1885–1955): Modern Landscapes in Switzerland

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture

The Zürich-born garden architect Gustav Ammann was a key figure during the first half of the 20th century in garden and landscape architecture in Switzerland.…

Girot: Natur entwerfen. Zum Werk des Schweizer Landschaftsarchitekten Dieter Kienast (1945-1998)

Designing Nature. About the work of Swiss Landscape Architect Dieter Kienast (1945-1998)

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture

The dissertation presents the first comprehensive critique of the work of Dieter Kienast and covers the period from the 1970’s to the 1990’s. It intends…

The Aesthetization of the Imaginary

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture

Representation of Urban Landscapes in Berlin Through Film This transdisciplinary study discusses the construction of urban landscapes in feature films and their implications for design…

Alp Transit Switzerland

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture

Alp Transit is creating a major tunnel to link the Lombardy region & Lugano to the north of Switzerland. In the forage process, 3.7 millions…

Rising Waters, Shifting Lands

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture

The design of a changing landscape for the island of Dordrecht in the Rhine Meuse Delta of Holland This Landscape Architecture Studio investigated future adaptations…

Girot: Progetto CTI 4D Siti. Combinazione basata sulle immagini di dati spaziali e materiale grafico

CTI Project 4D Sites. Image-based Combination of Spatial Data and Graphical Material

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture

Test sites: Village of St. Moritz & UNESCO World Heritage Convent St. John Mustair The observation of landscape development over time is one of the…

Girot: Paesaggi alluvionali. Strategie paesaggistiche contemporanee in tempi di cambiamenti climatici

Flood Scapes. Contemporary Landscape Strategies in Times of Climate Change

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture

Living with flood risk is still the common condition of most European cities, from Alpine valleys to coastal deltas. However, how we conceive of disaster…

Girot: An den Wurzeln der Profession. Die Kunstgärtner Theodor Froebel (1820–1893) und Otto Froebel (1844–1906) als Wegbereiter der Schweizer Landschaftsarchitektur

Back to the Roots of Our Profession. The Garden Designers Theodor Froebel (1820–1893) and Otto Froebel (1844–1906) as Pioneers of Swiss Landscape Architecture

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture

Theodor (1810–1893) and Otto (1844–1906) Froebel are two of the most important personalities of Swiss garden design of the 19th century. With their multifaceted œuvre,…

Girot: L'incompletezza della casa. Le abitazioni di Mies van der Rohe e il paesaggio moderno.

Fragmentary Homes. Living in a Mies-van-der-Rohe-House and the Landscape-Experience

Published on: 18. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture

This dissertation investigates the aesthetic experience of nature, following debates in German Philosophical Aesthetics from the 18th up to the 20th century. It argues that…

Explorative Data-Mapping. Experimental Teaching Tools

Published on: 12. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture

Within the design process, what methods are needed to identify relevant information from the abundance of data sets available? How can the data be visualized…

Girot: Kulturlabor Seoul. Strategien für kulturspezifisches Landschaftsdesign in Südkorea

Cultural Laboratory Seoul. Strategies for culture-specific landscape architecture in South Korea

Published on: 12. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture

The doctoral thesis «Cultural Laboratory Seoul» aims to decode culturally-rooted design concepts in parks and open spaces in Seoul. It seeks to examine the perception…

From Rarity to Everyday Culture. The Botanical Garden Zurich and its Role in Distributing new Plants in the 19th Century

Published on: 12. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture

The dissertation «From Rarity to Everyday Culture» shows how the Zurich Botanical Garden succeeded, in a country without seaports or colonies and far from large…

Girot: La dimensione acustica dell'architettura del paesaggio. Studi sulla percezione e implementazione dell'acustica paesaggistica.

The Acoustic Dimension of Landscape Architecture. Studies on the Perception and Implementation of Landscape Acoustics.

Published on: 12. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Christophe Girot | Landscape Architecture

Auditory impressions have a significant impact on how people perceive and evaluate their environment. The rustling of the leaves, the tapping of the rain, or…

Vogt: Tokio. La strada come spazio vissuto

Tokio. The Street as Lived Space

Published on: 12. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Dr. h. c. Günther Vogt | Landscape Architecture

The street has always been one of the most significant public spaces. Particularly in Asian cities, the street – not the square – remains even…

Tree Nurseries – Cultivating the Urban Jungle

Published on: 12. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Dr. h. c. Günther Vogt | Landscape Architecture

Book project: Reports on plant production Based on reports, the background and sphere of influence of tree nurseries will be told and depicted. The relationship…

Vogt: Alla ricerca della felicità in giardino

Trying to Find Happiness in the Garden

Published on: 12. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Dr. h. c. Günther Vogt | Landscape Architecture

The theme of paradise is presented in eight illustrated essays that are based on individual and collective activities: community gardens in Berlin, war gardens in…

Taking to the Streets: Investigation of the Quality of Public Spaces in the Phenomenon of the Street

Published on: 12. April 2017

Chair: Prof. em Dr. h. c. Günther Vogt | Landscape Architecture

The streets have always represented the arteries of the life of a city. A city without streets is unimaginable. Compared to plazas and parks, street…