Pavilion of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson
01/07/2016.
Swimming Pool Series 2016 [Zurich] Switzerland
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
The European nomadic biennial of contemporary art, Manifesta 11, has this year a wonderful space to project its films. The Pavillon of Reflections floats on Lake Zurich as an island of wooden lattices and on it you can watch movies, swim or drink a beer. If you have the chance, do not miss this summer plan.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections when transporting into its final position in the lake, by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections when transporting into its final position in the lake, by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections during its construction by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections during its construction by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections during its construction by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections during its construction by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections during its construction by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections during its construction by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections during its construction by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
Detail of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
View of the Pavillon of Reflections during its construction by Studio Tom Emerson. Photograph © Studio Tom Emerson.
Prefabrication of the wooden lattices of the Pavillon of Reflections by Studio Tom Emerson. Fotografía © Studio Tom Emerson.
Prefabrication of the wooden lattices of the Pavillon of Reflections by Studio Tom Emerson. Fotografía © Studio Tom Emerson.
Prefabrication of the wooden lattices of the Pavillon of Reflections by Studio Tom Emerson. Fotografía © Studio Tom Emerson.
Prefabrication of the wooden lattices of the Pavillon of Reflections by Studio Tom Emerson. Fotografía © Studio Tom Emerson.
Image composition of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson.
Image composition of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson.
Site plan of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson.
Floor plan of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson.
Floor plan of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson.
Section of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson.
Section of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson.
Elevation of the Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 by Studio Tom Emerson.
The Pavillon of Reflections for Manifesta 11 has been designed and built by a team of 32 students from Studio Tom Emerson at ETH Zurich. Students have worked for 10 months to cover all scales of this project, from its context in the lake to the joints of each piece of wood. The lattices were prefabricated and then assembled on the lake, when finally built, the whole was transported over the water to its final site.
The result is a protected and intimate urban space that forms the largest of most complex student-led project to date.
Description of the project by Studio Tom Emerson
A team of thirty architecture students from Studio Tom Emerson at ETH Zurich have designed and built a pavilion for Manifesta 11, the nomadic, European biennial of contemporary art. Floating in the lake against the backdrop of the city centre, the Pavillon of Reflections serves as the biennial’s public forum: as a meeting point, as a cinema for screening films produced as part of the biennial, reflected in the public swimming bath, open to the public during the day.
A timber island, arrange like a fragment of intimate urban space enclosed by five buildings: a tower, a tribune, a bar, a sun deck with changing cubicles below, a central pool with cinema screen above, and three generous sets of steps that lead into the lake. Together with the tower, the volumetric roofs over the bar are built up from a distinct profile of timber lattice roofs.
Under the guidance of Tom Emerson and project leaders Boris Gusic and Adrian Heusser the 32 architecture students at ETH Zurich collectively concieved and built the pavilion. The project began with an ideas competition between smaller groups of students, from which the most promising ideas were identified and developed. Organising themselves into smaller teams, they worked at different scales, from considering its position on the lake, right down to 1:1 scale prototypes. As well as the design process, the democratic construction techniques employed informed the design: the pavilion is made almost entirely of timber (European spruce), and all joints were designed to be simply screwed together. The students worked over ten months to bring the many design-related, technical and organisational dimensions of the project together to in a multi-layered and ultimately buildable work of architecture. As the project grew, experts and volunteers helped the 32 original students to realise this exceptional public space floating in lake Zurich.
More information
ETH Zürich
Philip Ursprung, gta, ETH Zürich
Marcel Aubert, Block Research Group ETH Zürich
Alessandro Tellini, Raplab D-Arch ETH Zürich
Brigitte Schiesser, Legal Dept. ETH Zürich
Engineering
Hansbeat Reusser, Holzbaubüro Reusser GmbH.
Christoph Müller, Holzbaubüro Reusser GmbH.
Andreas Kocher, Holzbaubüro Reusser GmbH.
Simon Rehm, Holzbaubüro Reusser GmbH.
Samuel Jucker, Willy Stäubli Ing. AG.
Robert Jockwer Institut für Baustatik und Konstruktion IBK ETH Zürich.
Forestry
Kanton Zürich.
Baudirektion.
Amt für Landwirtschaft und Natur.
Erwin Schmid.
Waldwirtschaftsverband Zürich.
Vereinigung der Zürcher Waldbesitzer.
Kaspar Reutimann.
Timber Processing
Martin Keller, Sägerei Konrad Keller AG.
Holzwewrkstoffe Notter AG.
Katharina Lehmann, Blumer-Lehmann AG.
Timber construction
Hannes Jedele, Handholzwerk.
Falco Horb, Handholzwerk.
Laura Peisker, Handholzwerk.
Karl Rühle.
Professional School Wetzikon
Peter Isler.
Tools
Robert Bosch AG Power Tools.
Raplab D-ARCH.
Alessandro Tellini.
Daniel Bachmann.
Mechanical Fastening
Beat Ruch, SFS Unimarkt AG.
Thomas Graber, SFS Unimarket AG.
Roof Cladding
Gaudenz Wieland, Eternit AG.
Ueli Schweizer, Eternit AG.
Pierre Jelovcan , Preisig AG.
Steel
Prefabrication.-
Tanja Pichler, Stahlbau Pichler
Daniel Raffeiner, Stahlbau Pichler AG
Albert Hofer, Stahlbaupichler AG
Assembly.-
Samuel Jucker, Willy Stäubli Ing AG
Scaffolding
Fix Gerüstbau AG.
Beat and Gina Ingold.
Stadt Zürich
Alex Schilling, Kultur Stadt Zürich.
Werner Klaus, Wasserschutzpolizei Stadt Zürich.
Lake
Beat Schwengeler, Zürcher Segelclub.
Thomas Hartmann, Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft AG.
Conny Hürlimann, Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft AG.
Marco Rizzi, Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft AG.
Fabrication hall
Firma Geilinger AG.
Andreas Gerster, Geilinger AG.
Thomas Rickenbach, Geilinger AG.
Construction site
Kibag.
Film maker
Gavin Emerson, Holy Cow Productions.
Special things
Kunstgiesserei St. Gallen AG (St. Gallen).
Helping hands
David Moser, Student ETH Zürich..
Noël Picco, Student ETH Zürich.
Lena Stolze, Student ETH Zürich.
Lukas Fink, Student ETH Zürich.
Micha Ringger, Student ETH Zürich.
Milena Buchwalder, Student ETH Zürich.
Beatriz Klettner Soler, Student ETH Zürich.
Deborah Suter, Student ETH Zürich.
Sebastian Oswald, Student ETH Zürich.
Daniel Schneider, Student ETH Zürich.
Tibor Rossi, Student ETH Zürich.
Laszlo Blaser, Student ETH Zürich.
Angela Burkart.
Tom EMERSON
Tom Emerson founded 6a architects with Stephanie Macdonald in London in 2001. Recent projects include two contemporary art galleries in London: Raven Row in Spitalfields and the South London Gallery in Peckham. He studied at the University of Bath, the Royal College of Art in London and the University of Cambridge. Before joining the eth, he taught in Cambridge (2004–10), the Architectural Association (2000–04) and in the Department of Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art. He has been guest lecturer and critic in many schools of architecture in the uk and Europe and has published articles on architecture, art and literature.
Studio Tom Emerson is a design and research studio in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich led by Professor Tom Emerson, focusing on re-use and bricolage in architecture and the narrative of history.
Since 2010 Studio Tom Emerson has undertaken a series of collective projects exploring the architectural potential of re-use and bricolage in full scale construction projects designed and built by the students and large scale surveys of post-industrial European cities; Forst (2011) on the German Polish border, Galway (2012) on the west coast of Ireland and Glasgow (2014).
The studio started with 96 hands in September 2010, as a two week primer for the design studio. they have continued to make these small structures alongside research into territorial re-use. For them, Re-use is not an alternative to the new. It is a new reality. Every piece of land has been occupied or inhabited. New buildings are simply another way of re-using the land.
Catalogues of Atlases of Forst and Galway were published in 2012 and including essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Arno Brandlhuber, Tom Emerson, Shelley McNamara, Tom de Paor, Philip Ursprung and Elia Zenghelis.
In 2016 the Glasgow Atlas was exhibited and published at Glasgow International 2016, the city’s biennale of contemporary art.
The Pavilion of Reflections for Manifesta 11 Zurich, is the largest of most complex student-led project to date.
Studio Tom Emerson is a design and research studio in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich led by Professor Tom Emerson, focusing on re-use and bricolage in architecture and the narrative of history.
Since 2010 Studio Tom Emerson has undertaken a series of collective projects exploring the architectural potential of re-use and bricolage in full scale construction projects designed and built by the students and large scale surveys of post-industrial European cities; Forst (2011) on the German Polish border, Galway (2012) on the west coast of Ireland and Glasgow (2014).
The studio started with 96 hands in September 2010, as a two week primer for the design studio. they have continued to make these small structures alongside research into territorial re-use. For them, Re-use is not an alternative to the new. It is a new reality. Every piece of land has been occupied or inhabited. New buildings are simply another way of re-using the land.
Catalogues of Atlases of Forst and Galway were published in 2012 and including essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Arno Brandlhuber, Tom Emerson, Shelley McNamara, Tom de Paor, Philip Ursprung and Elia Zenghelis.
In 2016 the Glasgow Atlas was exhibited and published at Glasgow International 2016, the city’s biennale of contemporary art.
The Pavilion of Reflections for Manifesta 11 Zurich, is the largest of most complex student-led project to date.
