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EPFL / ENAC / IA / ALICEatelier de la conception de l’espacespring semester 2009dieter dietz, aline dubach, eveline galatis, olivier ottevaere, daniel pokora, isabella pasqualini, katia ritz
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evolverEvolver is an inhabitable sculpture erected for the Zermatt Festival, the renowned annual event
for Chamber Music featuring the Berlin Philharmonics and many others. As an architectural
artifact Evolver intervenes spatially on the panorama surrounding Zermatt and was designed
and executed by a team of 2nd year architecture students from the ALICE studio at EPFL
in Lausanne, Switzerland. In an effort to take full advantage of the site’s extensive and
astounding views, the project sits strategically next to the lake Stelli at an altitude of 2536m.
Its structure mainly consists of a succession of 24 rotating frames supporting an enclosed
space that visitors are encouraged to enter. As he or she progresses through the space, a
concealed but uninterrupted 720° movement is unraveling along a transformed panorama.
This transformation occurs while inside a person is moving along a selective string of openings
only to be caught peeling off a sequence of unexpected views from the original landscape.
Wobbling below and above a distant horizon, ground and sky have been re-orchestrated
into an orbiting panorama by a journey that has already culminated to where it started: A
loophole on the skyline.
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GRAVITY AT WORK
3-D software is implemented
as a tool for analysis of spatial
conditions and transformations
in time. The parallel construction
of a physical model and its
counterpart in the digital realm
fosters an understanding of
structures and forces. at work.”
des ign
process
ENTREE ALPINE
The second semester of the academic
year 2008/2009 was a continuation of
our investigations on altitude.
We developed a project in a mountainous,
alpine condition in several resolutions at
different scales. First, a series of mountain
passes were looked at and transformed
into panoramic site models. Subsequently
the program of Entrée Alpine has been
introduced as a first step towards a project
proposal: the design of an Alpine Motel.
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proposals have been evaluated in a jury
with external experts in a public review.
Several proposals served as the basis for
a ‘one to one’ structure to be erected in
Zermatt at an altitude of 2536m as a part
of the Zermatt-Festival.
This booklet shows the studies on
geometry, scale, materiality and structural
performance. The Entrée Alpine group of
10 students finally settled on a design
based on the figure-8 Klein bottle
equation. The project was erected in
summer 2009.
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Studies on geometry and structural systems
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Studies on scale
Physical models
First mock-up
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Conceptual model of opening
Physical model 1/10
Mock-up at EPFL
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POSSIBLE SITE 1
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Revolver is a panoramic public installation, designed for the hikingarea of the five lakes about 1000m above Zermatt. Its timber andmetal structure holds a double circulation that forms a singlelooped path. Along this path, a continuous frame spins around theviewer, giving her or him an always shifting relation to the surroundingspace conditions.This dynamic approach of the classical Zermatt panorama engagesboth vision and the moving body in order to extract a new experiencefrom the overwhelming site.
360° panoramic path
720° panoramic path with elevation
360° sweeping opening along path
360° vertical panorama360° horizontal panorama
MANIFESTO
ORTHOPHOTO
MAP
BUILDINGS
THE PROJECT AT 3 SITE PROPOSED
CLIFF
FOREST
GRASS
WATER / ICE
STONE
LANDCOVER
FUNICULAR / CABLE_CARS
ACCESS
PEDESTRIAN WAYS
SMALL ROADS
TRAIN
HYDROGRAPHY
TRANSPORTATION
SWISSNAMES
TRIAL & ERRORchronological proposals production
ALICEatelier de la conception de l'espacefabricate / week 15 / 1:1 entrée alpine : REVOLVERalice fabrication team :ahmed belkhodja, augustin clement, olivier di giambattista, nicolas feihl, eveline job, martin lepoutre, samuel maire, benjamin melly, adrian-llewelyn meredith, françois nantermod
Z-SCALE ANALYSIS
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02m
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OPENING
CURCULATION SLOPE
BOUNDING BOX
SPACE LIMIT
CIRCULATION
OPENING
STRUCTURE
BRACING
PROPOSALPROPOSAL
SHAPING CONCEPTIONscale 1 : 100
GEOMETRY CHRONOLOGYscale 1 : 100
TRUSS 01 02
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24PLAN scale 1 : 33
ALICEatelier de la conception de l'espacefabricate / week 15 / 1:1 entrée alpine : REVOLVERalice fabrication team :ahmed belkhodja, augustin clement, olivier di giambattista, nicolas feihl, eveline job, martin lepoutre, samuel maire, benjamin melly, adrian-llewelyn meredith, françois nantermod
FRONT VIEW scale 1 : 33
RIGHT VIEW scale 1 : 33
Presentation drawing documenting design process and site search
Across and following pages: final project in flat ground condition trusses and studies on skin materialisation
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ALICEatelier de la conception de l'espacefabricate / week 15 / 1:1 entrée alpine : REVOLVERalice fabrication team :ahmed belkhodja, augustin clement, olivier di giambattista, nicolas feihl, eveline job, martin lepoutre, samuel maire, benjamin melly, adrian-llewelyn meredith, françois nantermod
AXONOMETRIC DETAIL scale 1 : 33TRUSS 06
VERTICAL RIBS STRUCTURE scale 1 : 100
MATERIALITY :
perforated metallic sheet
thin fabric filter
TRUSS 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12
TRUSS 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
AXONOMETRIC DETAIL scale 1 : 33METALLIC SKIN = BRACING
AXONOMETRIC DETAIL scale 1 : 33TEXTIL SKIN + WOOD BRACING
back-up plan
MOCK-UP DETAILMOCK-UP DETAIL
MOCK-UP DETAIL
MOCK-UP DETAILtextil fixation
MOCK-UP DETAIL
ZOOM-IN scale 1 : 10
DETAIL SECTIONscale 1 : 10
DETAIL SECTIONscale 1 : 10
ZOOM-INscale 1 : 10
ZOOM-IN scale 1 : 10
ALICEatelier de la conception de l'espacefabricate / week 15 / 1:1 entrée alpine : REVOLVERalice fabrication team :ahmed belkhodja, augustin clement, olivier di giambattista, nicolas feihl, eveline job, martin lepoutre, samuel maire, benjamin melly, adrian-llewelyn meredith, françois nantermod
TOP VIEW scale 1 : 33 AXONOMETRIC VIEW scale 1 : 33
INTERIOR SPACE vertical panorama
INTERIOR SPACE horizontal panorama
SECTION A - A scale 1 : 33
SECTION B - B scale 1 : 33
SECTION C - C scale 1 : 33
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assemblyFROM EPFL TO ZERMATT
Evolver was partially prefabricated in Lausanne
at EPfl+ECAL lab and at EPFL. The trusses
were then transported to Zermatt Stellisee to
an altitude of 2536 meters above sea level.
The Entrée Alpine group erected the structure
in a joined effort in a three weeks period in
August and September and was inaugurated
at the Zermatt Festival 2009 .
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TransportThe first trusses erectedEvolver evolving
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evolver
ze rmat t s te l l i see
2009 / 2010
Photos by Joël Tettamanti
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acknowledgments
a l i c e s t u d e n t s 2 0 0 8 / 2 0 0 9
Alexandria Ming Aerni, Ahmed Belkhodja, Augustin Clement, Samuel Devanthéry, Lionel Epiney,
Nicolas Feihl, Olivier Di Giambattista, David Jenny, Eveline Job, Elias Kesselring, Jonas Läubli, Martin
Lepoutre, Samuel Maire, Lukas Manz, Benjamin Melly, Adrian Llewelyn Meredith, Youcef Mezzour,
François Nantermod, Julien Prudhomme, Korab Ramadani, Fabian Roth, Gabriela Schär, Danny Te
Kloese, Barbara Thüler, Hadrien Tricaud, Tom Doan Tuan, Vy Pham Thi Hoang, Simon Wälti, Anina
Weber, Carole Westhoff
a l i c e t e a m
Dieter Dietz, Aline Dubach, Eveline Galatis, Olivier Ottevaere, Daniel Pokora, Isabella Pasqualini, Katia
Ritz
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t e a c h i n g t e a m Katia Ritz, Daniel Pokora, Olivier Ottevaere
d e s i g n a n d f a b r i c a t i o n g r o u p
Ahmed Belkhodja, Augustin Clement, Olivier Di Giambattista, Nicolas Feihl, Eveline Job, Martin
Lepoutre, Samuel Maire, Benjamin Melly, Adrian Meredith, François Nantermod
p h o t o g r a p h y Joël Tettamanti
t h i s p r o j e c t w o u l d n o t h a v e b e e n p o s s i b l e w i t h o u t t h e s i g n i f i c a n t c o n t r i b u t i o n s o f t h e f o l l o w i n g s p o n s o r s a n d i n s t i t u t i o n s :
ENAC Faculty, EPFL Lausanne; Institute of Architecture, IA EPFL Lausanne; Zermatt Festival; Zermatt
Tourismus; MGB, Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn; ZBAG, Zermatt Bergbahnen AG; Burgergemeinde
Zermatt; Archeotec SA Groupe Archidata, Epalinges; Bossard Groupe, Zug; Scierie de Cornaux SARL;
Boissec, Ecublens; Jallut peinture, Bussigny
s p e c i a l t h a n k s t o :
Daniel Luggen, Director Zermatt Tourismus; Marc Parlange, Doyen ENAC EPFL; Giorgio Margaritondo,
Vice President EPFL; Nicolas Henchoz, Director EPFL+ECAL lab; Ines Lumunière, Director SAR, EPFL;
Bruno Marchand, Director IA, EPFL; Olivier Feihl, Director Archeodata; Team Bergrestaurant Fluhalp;
Helge von Giese; Eveline Galatis, ALICE lab EPFL
f o r t h e i r w i d e s p r e a d s u p p o r t .
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