Keep or Replace? Densification, Embodied Carbon, and What Sustainability Leaves Out

Name: Keep or Replace? Densification, Embodied Carbon, and What Sustainability Leaves Out
Start: 2026-11-03T16:30:00.000Z
End: 2026-11-03T18:30:00.000Z
Location: ETH Zürich Hönggerberg

Lecture examining tensions between densification and building preservation in sustainable urban development in Zürich.

Date

Tuesday 3 November

17:30 – 19:30

Venue

ETH Zürich Hönggerberg

Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, Zürich

Price

Free

Language

English

No German needed

About

Alessandro Cassia analyses the tension between urban densification and building preservation in Zürich. Whilst densification is meant to promote sustainability, demolition and new construction produce embodied carbon that retaining existing buildings does not. The lecture explores how these factors are weighed and what environmental and social consequences the choice to build anew entails.

Organiser · ETH Zürich

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