Online exhibition of the students projects of Studio Weinand

This semester, the studio Weinand proposed to investigate the potential reuse of this historical landmark, notably through architecture as a civil engagement and construction as a performance.

Location of the project:
Currently abandoned, the preventorium Le Rosaire was built in the 1930s and hosted 100 beds for women and children suffering from tuberculosis. Located in Sciernes d’Albeuve, this remote location offered a remarquable air quality and a scenic landscape. Today, the preventorium is protected and maintains a strong cultural heritage in the region.

Aims of the studio Weinand:
Students of Studio Weinand have been investigating the potential of digital tools to better link early-stage design with late-stage construction. Through different workshops and lectures, students were introduced to digital fabrication tools, parametric interfaces and holistic thinking methods. Laser scanning techniques have also been used to get a detailed point cloud of the chosen site and challenge classical project representations.
As the global pandemic forced the teaching of the project to be done remotely and virtually, having a digital twin of the building helped maintaining a bound to the reality of the existing site.

For the final review, we had the chance to have two distinguished guests. Prof. Niels Martin Laersen (Aarhus School of Architecture) who worked on the adaptive reuse of architectural heritage in Denmark and Prof. Franz Graf (EPFL) who is also actively engaged in the preservation of existing constructions and doing research on the act of building within existing buildings.

Go visit the new TOUR D’HORIZON website, the new final reviews exhibition plateforme of EPFL architecture studios !
https://epfl-architecture.ch