La Cité du Lignon has been distinguished with the Europa Nostra and SIA Awards

Abstract

The Re-Use research on the Housing Complex of Lignon (Switzerland, Geneva) has been awarded with the Europa Nostra Prize for Research in 2013. The project, published in docomomo Journal 44 (2011/1), has been developed by the EPFL's Laboratory of Techniques and Preservation of Modern Architecture (TSAM), under the leadership of Franz Graf and Giulia Marino, docomomo Switzerland members. The problem of energy effiency affects all buildings and particularly social housing of the post-war period.