Luisa Pastore
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Biography
Luisa Pastore is a Scientific Project Manager and Lecturer at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).Since 2022, she has been in charge of the management of SWICE, a trans- and interdisciplinary 8-year-long research project aimed to explore and test sustainable social change practices and technological solutions towards the Swiss energy transition.
She also works for the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction where she oversees the technical content of different programs offered by the Foundation to promote and democratize the latest leading-edge thinking and best practice on sustainable design and construction from around the globe.
Since 2021 she's also joined Amber Lion Partners as Impact and Sustainability Advisor.
With a background in Architectural Engineering, Luisa specialised in sustainable architecture, bioclimatic design and comfort in buildings through a PhD from the University of Palermo (2013) followed by a Post-doc at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID) of EPFL (2014-2019).
Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Architecture
Projeter ensemble ENAC
Past EPFL PhD Students
Agarwal Minu ,Courses
UE K : Architecture and Sustainability : performance studies
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.
Comfort and architecture: sustainable strategies
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.