Roberto Sega
Assistant
roberto.sega@epfl.ch +41 21 693 32 90
Fields of expertise
Urban Design
Urbanisme, Landscape Urbanism
Regional and Environmental Planning
Regional Economy
Cartography
Urbanisme, Landscape Urbanism
Regional and Environmental Planning
Regional Economy
Cartography
Biography
Architect and Urban planner
Professional activity
Authorized to the architectural profession, regularly registered since January 2011 at the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscapers of the Province of Trento, Italy.
From 2010 to 2014, collaboration with the international office "Studio Associato Bernardo Secchi - Paola Viganò".
Designer of various projects and urban studies in Italy, France, Russia and Belgium.
Project leader in the urban competition "The elaboration of the draft concept of the Moscow city agglomeration development (Moscow 2012), and in the urban study Le Grand Paris, une ville poreuse et une métropole horizontale inside the international consultation of AIGP - Atelier International du Grand Paris (Paris 2013).
PhD Thesis (EPFL, 2018)
Title: New alpine ecologies
Industrialization and construction of the city-territory.
Abstract:
This research study offers a reflection on the Alpine urban condition through the observation of the spaces of production. Departing from the premise that the tourist economy cannot be the only possible horizon for Alpine development, this thesis reflects on the role and the potentialities of the spaces of production in the construction process of the Alpine city-territory. The economic-ecological transition underway offers the chance to redefine the productive and settlement geography of the Alpine territories, by examining anew their centrality in the European context. The main objective of this research is to investigate the relation between the economy and the construction of the territory. In this prospect, the spaces of production and their related infrastructure are used as a lens through which the question of settlement development can be read and conceptualised.
Fields of interest: Economy, City-territory, The relationship between settlement and territorial production systems, Regional polycentrism.
Current work
From 2018, Post-Doc researcher, Member of the executive committee of the HRC Habitat Research Center at EPFL. Team coordinator for the Greater Geneva project.
From 2013, Member of the LAB-U Laboratory of Urbanism led by Prof. Paola Viganò. Scientific assistant at EPFL of Lausanne, in the Design studio ALPS: prototypes for the Alpine City-territory.
Education
| PhD | Architecture and Sciences of the City | EPFL École Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne | 09/10/2018 |
| Architect | Master thesis in Urbanism: "Ha-Noi Dat-Nuoc, the Red River city in the Asian competition of the XXI century" | University IUAV of Venice | 30/04/2010 |
Infoscience publications
Publications
2019
Student Projects
S. Oppliger : Entre ville et nature, d’une enclave industrielle à une nouvelle centralité par la perméabilité, Delémont (JU) ; 2019.
R. Silva Aguiar : L’aménagement de la côte lausannoise à travers des baignades urbaines ; 2019.
J.-L. Tscheulin : Striptown Detroit: un scénario de revitalisation du tissu urbain, social et économique de Metropolitan Detroit par le redéploiement de ses strips ; 2019.
2018
Journal Articles
R. Sega : Les Alpes : portrait productif; Revue Sur-Mesure. 2018.
Theses
R. Sega : Nuove ecologie alpine: industrializzazione e costruzione della città-territorio. Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8663.
Book Chapters
R. Sega : Towards a Productive Mesh of the European City-Territory; The horizontal metropolis between urbanism and urbanization; Springer, 2018.
Talks
R. Sega : Nouvelles écologies alpines : industrialisation et construction de la ville-territoire.
R. Sega : The industrialization and the construction of the Alpine city-territory ; U&U - 9th edition of the PhD Seminar in Urbanism & Urbanization, Genth, Belgium, 7-9 Février 2018.
R. Sega : NEW ALPINE ECOLOGIES : The industrialization and the construction of the Alpine city-territory. Monte Carasso, Svizzera, 4-7 Avril 2018.
Student Projects
G. Sandoz : Les halles et la rivière. Un parc métropolitain dans la vallée de la Venoge ; 2018.
P.-A. Terrier; O. Viscardi : Après Alptransit: nouvel avenir pour les vallées du Gothard. Des infrastructures reconnectées au territoire ; 2018.
2017
Journal Articles
R. Sega : Rhône 3, Rischi e opportunità per la città-territorio alpina; Archalp, Foglio semestrale del Centro di ricerca di Architettura Montana Dipartimento di Architettura e Design, Politecnico di Torino. 2017.
M. Cerruti But; C. Mattioli; R. Sega; I. Vassallo : Dialogo con Gabi Dei Ottati; TERRITORIO. 2017. DOI : 10.3280/TR2017-081026.
R. Sega : La ‘piattaforma produttiva alpina' tra terza-quarta rivoluzione industriale; TERRITORIO. 2017. DOI : 10.3280/TR2017-081023.
M. Cerruti But; C. Mattioli; R. Sega; I. Vassallo : Dialogo con Giancarlo Corò; TERRITORIO. 2017. DOI : 10.3280/TR2017-081022.
R. Sega : Les Alpes: marginalité et opportunité d'un territoire productif; TRACÉs espazium. 2017.
Reviews
M. Cerruti But; C. Mattioli; R. Sega; I. Vassallo : Spazi, territori e suoli della produzione; TERRITORIO. 2017. DOI : 10.3280/TR2017-081016.
M. Cerruti But; C. Mattioli; R. Sega; I. Vassallo : Territori nella reindustrializzazione; TERRITORIO. 2017. DOI : 10.3280/TR2017-081015.
Book Chapters
R. Sega : Les Alpes des riches et la ville des pauvres; Inégalités urbaines : Du projet utopique au développement durable; Genève: MētisPresses, 2017.
Talks
A. Vialle; R. Sega : Densuisse Part 3 - La métropole Alpino-Lémanique ; The Eco-Century Project - Séminaire de Genève 2017, Genève, 2017-11-30.
R. Sega : La métropole Alpino-Lémanique ; The Eco-Century Project, Genève, November 30,2017.
R. Sega : Productive ecologies of cross-border valleys ; La montagne, territoire d'innovation, Grenoble, France, 11-13 Jenuary, 2017.
2016
Conference Papers
R. Sega : Ecologie produttive: Ridefinire la centralità e la marginalità della città-territorio alpina. 2016. XXXVII CONFERENZA ITALIANA DI SCIENZE REGIONALI, Ancona, Septembre 20-22, 2016.
Talks
R. Sega : Les Alpes des riches et la ville des pauvres ; Journée d’étude Bernardo Secchi 2016″La ville des riches et la ville des pauvres”, Genève, September 27, 2016.
R. Sega; C. Mattioli; M. Cerruti But; I. Vassallo : Reindustrializing Europe ; Reindustrializing Europe, Venice, Italy, May 11-12, 2016.
R. Sega : Quel avenir pour les Alpes industrielles? ; Dynamiques Economiques, Urbaines et Emploi : Quel avenir pour les Zones d’Activités ?, Cergy-Pontoise, Ille de France, France, September 5 -23, 2016.
Student Projects
F. Montresor : Le delta du fleuve Rouge, un territoire productif à deux vitesses ; 2016.
2015
Conference Papers
R. Sega : Productive ecologies: Redefining the centrality and marginality of the city-territory. 2015. THE HORIZONTAL METROPOLIS: A RADICAL PROJECT, VIII International PhD seminar 'Urbanism & Urbanization' | Symposium Latsis EPFL 2015, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 12-14, 2015. p. 331-339.
Talks
R. Sega : Ecologie produttive: ridefinire la centralità e la marginalità della città territorio ; XVIII Conferenza della Società Italiana degli Urbanisti “Italia ’45-’45. Radici, condizioni, prospettive”, Venice, Italy, June 11-13, 2015.
Student Projects
R. Freymond; G. Garcier : Une école de terrain ; 2015.
2014
Reports
P. Viganò; B. Secchi; C. Cavalieri; L. Fabian; E. Giannotti et al. : Énergie et recyclage. 2014.
Talks
R. Sega; M. F. C. Durand : La ville poreuse ; Critical Mass (Joint Master of Architecture, Theory Seminar), Fribourg, Switzerland, November 3-7, 2014.
2013
Journal Articles
R. Sega : Questioni di parcheggio. Il progetto di Giancarlo De Carlo per la città di Trento; Progetto 00 Piazza Mostra. 2013.
2012
Book Chapters
P. Viganò; R. Sega : Recycling Cities; Re-cycle: strategies for architecture, city and planet; Mondadori Electa, 2012.
2011
Reviews
R. Sega; M. Orlandini; G. Gatto : Better city better business. Shanghai, il modello cinese da esportazione; Dialoghi Internazionali, Bruno Mondadori. 2011.
Talks
R. Sega; P. Viganò; I. Guida : Recycling cities ; Re-Cycle: Strategies for Architecture, City, and Planet, MAXXI, Rome, Italy, December 1, 2011 - April 29, 2012.
2010
Reviews
R. Sega; M. Orlandini; G. Gatto : Dove la città si riflette; Dialoghi Internazionali, Bruno Mondadori. 2010.
R. Sega; M. Orlandini; G. Gatto : Ceci n'est pas un fleuve!; Dialoghi Internazionali, Bruno Mondadori. 2010.
Student Projects
R. Sega; M. Orlandini; G. Gatto : Ha Noi - Dat Nuoc, la città del Fiume Rosso nella competizione asiatica del XXI° secolo ; 2010.
Research
PhD Thesis
PRODUCTIVE ECOLOGIES- Redefining the centrality and marginality of the Alpine city-territory -
The doctoral thesis investigates the phenomena of construction of the European city-territory and proposes spatial hypotheses for this project. The research question specifically concerns the relationship between the presence of productive systems and the conditions of diffused urbanity, in order to describe
and represent particular spatial models of development.
The study area is the Alpine Macro-region, now considered marginal compared with the hegemony of the metropolitan areas toward which the main investments are directed. The research considers the Alps as prototype area for a new urbanity: the different alpine territories have to deal with similar critical economic and socio-environmental challenges, but at the same time they depend on national policies and different models of development. In this sense the Alpine area is a set of neighbouring urban laboratories where the challenges for a different idea of growth, attractiveness and development of the European territory are emphasized.
