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Embrace the change - A student housing project in Geneva

Stepczynski, Arthur
2024

The énoncé théorique focused on the significance of comfort awareness as a way of fostering a better appropriation of our living space. Defined as the ability to act and be in control of one’s environment and its changes of states and conditions, the process of comfort awareness advocates for initiating variations in our environment and human state – as in change we ignite our consciousness. Consequently, the Master’s project aims to reconnect human beings with their climate through the integration and acceptance of these variations within the dwelling. Defining different spaces and spatial experiences by their relationship to the environment and its conditions (cold, hot, wet, dry, bright, humid, etc.), rather than by a predefined program. Breaking away from the steady-state model of today’s housing, which advocates a single, unchangeable and unnatural lifestyle; hindering personal appropriation. Accordingly, the project seeks to enable the inhabitants to act with full awareness of their environment’s stimuli, whilst allowing them to act freely in their use of a space. Through the student housing program, and in response to the asocial student housing model, the project also responds to the need of social interaction within housing (intimate, communal, collective). As a result, the project becomes a form of “embrace the change” through three overlapping perspectives: Climatic, social and usage variabilities. Thus everything becomes a question of variation.

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Type
master thesis
Author(s)
Stepczynski, Arthur
Advisors
Andersen, Marilyne  
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Binning, James
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Sineau, Camille  
Date Issued

2024

Publisher

EPFL

Publisher place

Lausanne

Subjects

habitation

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habitat collectif

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nouvelle construction

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architecture, construction, technologie, génie civil

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design

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développement durable

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bois

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ville

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zone industrielle

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friche

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Lancy

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Chemin des Mérinos

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Suisse romande

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Suisse

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Europe

Note

Cote: 2024.103

MEM.1/1

Groupe de suivi: Andersen, Marilyne (dir. pédagogique) ; Binning, James (prof.) ; Sineau, Camille (maître EPFL) ; Wéry, Jeanne (expert)

Professeur responsable de l'Enoncé: Andersen, Marilyne (ENAC IA LIPID)

Enoncé théorique de master: Comfort Awareness, redefining our approach to comfort in architecture

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https://www.epfl.ch/campus/library/fr/domaines/architecture-urbanisme/
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EPFL units
LIPID  
ENAC-SAR  
Faculty
ENAC  
Section
AR-S  
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November 11, 2024
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/241897
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