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Pavillon d'Eau
Pavillon d'Eau
Saint-Saphorin, Switzerland
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Pavillon d'Eau
Saint-Saphorin, Switzerland
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Type
Commercial ›
Showroom
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Hospitality + Sport › Wellness/Spa Information Center Zoo/Aquarium
Cultural › Pavilion Sculpture
Educational › University Other
Industrial › Laboratory Water Facility
Landscape + Planning › Public Park Private Garden Playground Urban Green Space Waterway/Wetland
Transport + Infrastructure › Train/Subway
Hospitality + Sport › Wellness/Spa Information Center Zoo/Aquarium
Cultural › Pavilion Sculpture
Educational › University Other
Industrial › Laboratory Water Facility
Landscape + Planning › Public Park Private Garden Playground Urban Green Space Waterway/Wetland
Transport + Infrastructure › Train/Subway
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2017
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$0 - 10K
The Pavillon d'Eau is a pavilion made out of wood and porcelain build on the Lac of Geneva. It has been realised within the scope of a final Master Project at EPFL. It is an achievement born out of the collaboration of two main Swiss universities, EPFL and HEAD (Geneva) et the municipality of Saint-Saphorin.
Designed by the EPFL student in Architecture Alexander Wolhoff, the pavilion is the outcome of 6 months of research, of prototyping and of dialogue between the different local and academical actors. Born at EPFL and more particularly in the laboratories ALICE and LHT3, the project was also led by a partnership with the CERCCO laboratory (HEAD), where the porcelain tiles where hand made one by one in a kiln reaching temperatures of 1300°C.
The UNESCO World Heritage Site municipality of Saint-Saphorin en Lavaux offered their waters to host the ephemeral pavilion; the cupola brining together wood and porcelain stood for one month in Geneva's Lac.
Scope: propose a pavilion that brings out the Lavaux's heritage and valorises its crystalline relief composed by waves and alpine crests. The whole project has been thought not to leave any imprints on the site, the anchors are non aggressive to the lake's bed. If the exterior of the pavilion has a structural language, the inside, which is only visible foots in the water, is ornamental. The porcelain tiles –enamelled Bleu de Sèvre– and their particular form play with both sunbeams' and lake's refraction as an attempt to capture the site's glare.
The project resolutely local, non content with highlighting the natural heritage of the unique Léaman's coastline, also throws light on the fruitful collaboration between different Swiss teaching institutions.
Project info
•Team: EPFL : ALICE D. Dietz, Raffel Baur, LHT3 R. Gargiani ; Me R. Fiechter ; HEAD : CERCCO M. Gerber, I.Schnederle, J-P. Greff.
•Architect : Alexander Wolhoff
•Materials : Porcelain, Wood, metal, lake stones.
•Tools : Saw, drill, kiln.
•Dimension : 5m40 exterior diam., 3m interior diam., 3m98 hight.
•Weight : 500kg
•Site of the Pavilon : Lake of Geneva (Léman), Plage des Bains Reymon, Saint-Saphorin, Suisse.
•Year : 2017
•Agenda : Six month of reasearch, one month of production, two days of assembly.
400 linear meters of wood, 600 elements of screws and bolts, 150 porcelain tiles hand made one by one, 7 gabions, 1,5 tons of lake stones.
Designed by the EPFL student in Architecture Alexander Wolhoff, the pavilion is the outcome of 6 months of research, of prototyping and of dialogue between the different local and academical actors. Born at EPFL and more particularly in the laboratories ALICE and LHT3, the project was also led by a partnership with the CERCCO laboratory (HEAD), where the porcelain tiles where hand made one by one in a kiln reaching temperatures of 1300°C.
The UNESCO World Heritage Site municipality of Saint-Saphorin en Lavaux offered their waters to host the ephemeral pavilion; the cupola brining together wood and porcelain stood for one month in Geneva's Lac.
Scope: propose a pavilion that brings out the Lavaux's heritage and valorises its crystalline relief composed by waves and alpine crests. The whole project has been thought not to leave any imprints on the site, the anchors are non aggressive to the lake's bed. If the exterior of the pavilion has a structural language, the inside, which is only visible foots in the water, is ornamental. The porcelain tiles –enamelled Bleu de Sèvre– and their particular form play with both sunbeams' and lake's refraction as an attempt to capture the site's glare.
The project resolutely local, non content with highlighting the natural heritage of the unique Léaman's coastline, also throws light on the fruitful collaboration between different Swiss teaching institutions.
Project info
•Team: EPFL : ALICE D. Dietz, Raffel Baur, LHT3 R. Gargiani ; Me R. Fiechter ; HEAD : CERCCO M. Gerber, I.Schnederle, J-P. Greff.
•Architect : Alexander Wolhoff
•Materials : Porcelain, Wood, metal, lake stones.
•Tools : Saw, drill, kiln.
•Dimension : 5m40 exterior diam., 3m interior diam., 3m98 hight.
•Weight : 500kg
•Site of the Pavilon : Lake of Geneva (Léman), Plage des Bains Reymon, Saint-Saphorin, Suisse.
•Year : 2017
•Agenda : Six month of reasearch, one month of production, two days of assembly.
400 linear meters of wood, 600 elements of screws and bolts, 150 porcelain tiles hand made one by one, 7 gabions, 1,5 tons of lake stones.
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