Dan Relecom
Architecture Portfolio
1: Desiquilibrium
2: Virtual Museum
3: Vision Machine
4: Spaces of Production
5: Densifying Tapiola
6: Birth, Life and Death
7: Let’s Swing
8: A Shelf
Desiquilibrium In collaboration with Danai Karis
Problematic of the Atelier: From a general theme, mouvement, produce spacialities which develop to become a pavillion.
Site: Undefined
Our response: Mouvement is induced by a desiquilibrium. We focussed our spatial research on this theme of producing mouvement through a sensation of desiquilibrium. The pavillion has extremely dynamic caracteristics. It is made of six strong slanted metal plates. The plates are folded to produce a sensation of desiquilibrium and closure of the indoor space. This pavillion was imagined for grand natural landscape such as salt deserts or larges planes as well as for urban sites. Its goal is to give the visitor a mixed feeling between the protection from the outside world and the desire to move through the pavillion.
Professor Dieter Dietz, Assistant Arrabella Masson Bachelor 1, Semestre 1, 2012 Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL)
Hand-drawn plans
Virtual Musem
Problematic of the Atelier: The work is set in 3012, in a city that has reached its maximum use of the land and therefore has to build a new neibourghood in the air over the decadent city. (free choice of program)
Site: The site is made of a massive structure made of beems of one meter by one meter creating a matrix of squares, which is more then a kilometer over the existing city.
My response: I imagined a future society in which dematerialisation has reached every aspect of life. I therefore designed a museum of the virtual, and imagined an architecture in response to dematerialisation. The Museum is made of glass, the anti-matter and of a strong structure formed by the geometry of the matrix, the matter. The exhibition is projected on the opaque glass making it an exhibition purely virtual without any objects. The Museum’s structure however brings out a contradiciton of a purely virtual world. By being strongly present throughout the exhibition, the structure reminds the visitor of the need of matter to have virtuality.
Professor Dieter Deitz, Assistant Arrabella Masson Bachelor 1, Semestre 2, 2013 Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL)
Hand-drawn plans
Interior Photograph
Vision Machine In collaboration with Romain Dubuis
Problematic of the Atelier: Build an archive building which permits the use of its contents while promotting them.
Site: The site was given and consisted of an old underground cylindrical water container with a diameter of 24.8m and an outering of 4m.
Our response: We combined four programs, archiving, an art restauration area, an exhibition and consulting zones. Our goal was to connect all the programs while keeping their specificities to create mutual awarness. Each program was placed in the building according to its specific light and spatial needs. The archive are places in the outering to protect them from light and to keep the generosity of the central place. A second layer was added in the peripheria of the central hall and is dedicated to circulation for the archivive consulting but also for the public of the exhibition creating therefore interactions between programs. The bridges enclose the consulting areas and permit the habitation of the central space. The exhibition runs on top of the bridges and provides constant views on the restauration area on the lowest floor and on the archive. The roof pattern is designed to allow perfect lighting at different deepness for each program.
Professor Jeannette Kuo Bachelor 2, Semestre 1, 2013 Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL)
Site plan
Perspective Section
Topfloor, Entrance
Roof plan
Working zones
Renovation center
Reuse Scheme
Lightmap
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View from the Expostition bridge
Spaces of Production In collaboration with Romain Dubuis
Problematic of the Atelier: What is a modern factory? How can a factory be implented in the city center of a city such as Zurich?
Site: A lot of 30m by 45m in the Kreis 5 neibourhood of Zurich, next to the Limat river. This neibourhood is an old industrial zone which has now been converted into a business and shopping area of the city.
Our response: Today a modern workspace needs to take in account the specialization of today’s workforce and the need of greater communication and interactions that it generates. We imagined a structure in which young designers could come and rent spaces to work and enjoy a variety of services offered by the building such as conference rooms, experts, heavy and light production zones, a shop and an exposition zone. Each program has his specific needs such as light conditions and are therefore placed by floor. We introduced shifting planes toawards the production zones placed at the center to create visual connections and awareness of others throughout the building. To encourage public interest to the designers, the ground floor with it’s shop and expostion zone and the top floor with its conference room act as buffers between the city and the factory.
Professor Jeannette Kuo Bachelor 2, Semestre 2, 2014 Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL)
Section
Groundfloor, entrance, caffĂŠ and expostion zone
Light production zones
Office floor
Commun floor
Designing Atelier floor
Public topfloor, Conference room
Lightmap
Situation
Elevation
View from the office floor onto a designing and production zone
Densifying Tapiola Problematic of the Atelier: To densify the region of Tapiola in Helsinki, Finland. Free choice of program.
Site: The choice of site was free in a given area of central Tapiola. I chose a site, which consisted of a small island inhabited in the main bay of Tapiola. It is visible from the surrounding apartment complexes. It is only accessible by boat.
My response: Densifying an area is not only a question of adding housing units. A settlement needs to develop in many different ways including culturally and spiritually. Following this thought and in adequation with the site, I decided to add a spiritual monument. It acts as an identity benchmark in the landscape for the community of Tapiola. The space is composed by three elements, the carved out natural rock, the fragile glass plates and the strong concrete protection tower. Finland’s special light conditions are central in the design. The concrete tower acts as a light filter responding directly to the different light conditions of each season. The light then hits the hollow glass crystal and trickles down the glass geometrical structure lighting the whole space. The tower is visible from the bay and acts as an invitation to the island. As it stands on six pillars, you understand that there is something under the tower. On your approach you perceive the two ramps carved out of the rock. You then see the lighted glass construction but have to walk around it to find the entrance and arrive at the core of the project. At this point the light conditions are optimal and invite one towards spirituality and a different time.
Professor Frederic Bonnet Bachelor 3, Semestre 1, 2014 Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, USI
Section
Section 1:50
Section 1:50
Plans Plans: 1:50
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Glass layering: 1:50
Dan Relecom Prof. Frédéric Bonnet Updating Modern Lagacy
Plans: 1:50
Glass structure Axonometry
Dan Relecom Prof. Frédéric Bonnet Updating Modern Lagacy
Axonometry 1:20
Dan Relecom Prof. Frédéric Bonnet Updating Modern Lagacy
Winter Lightmap: 1:100
Summer Lightmap
Winter Lightmap
Island plan
Elevation
Context perspective section
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From Interior view
Birth, Life and Death
Problematic of the Atelier: To imagine a program and an archtiecture in which birth, life and death are present.
Site: The site was given and consisted of the valley of the Golle della Breggia in Ticino, Switzerland. The valley used to be a ciment extraction site and factory, and is today a natural park. Part of the ciment factory is still present today but is no longer functioning.
My response: Birth, Life and Death are assembled in the very object of the Book. Reading a Book is an encounter with a writer, a story and a time. The book can embody a life and transmit it through time. My Proposal is a space of collection, of transmission, of encounter, of memory, of Birth, life and Death. It consists of a library in which books are produced, stored and read. The production process starts as one comes as part of a ritual and tells his story with which a professional writer who works in the library will produce the book. The central area of the building consists of the production zone with the paper production from fibers, the printing and the binding of the books. In the space around the production zone are articulated the reading, storage, writing and telling areas in a continuous space. In the summer these functions also take place in the park. The park and the Building interconnect to offer light and separation in the building. The building’s form implies the idea of growth. As years will go by, the collection will grow, thus filling the see through shelves and changing the spatiality of the building. The building and the park have spaces to accommodate groups of different sizes. An individual, a family or a classroom would all be able to come and reconnect through a book to a past and a life.
Professor Bijoy Jain, Assistants: Luca Mostarda, Guy Muntwyler Bachelor 3, Semestre 2, 2015 Accademia di Architettura di mendrisio, (USI)
A Library
plan
Section
Section 1:100
Elevation: 1:100
Section through the park with building elevation
View of the telling, Writting and reading space
Let’s Swing In collaboration with: O. Kossak, F. Mirone, A. Schulte, R. Vitali The workshop took place over three days as part of the semester atelier of Professor Bijoy Jain.
Problematic of the Workshop: To build an instrument to measure time in relation to a flowing stream.
Site: The site is a small stream situated in the golle della Breggia in Ticino Switzerland. The stream flows next to an abandoned concrete factory.
Our response: Time is perceived as a rhythm. We all have our own rhythm. The stream also has a rhythm and so does the sky. The principal idea was to create an instrument which would enable a user to put in relation all of these rhythms and therefore understand time as being multiple. The project consisted of a bed just touching the water hanging from two beams. It was placed in a narrow area of the stream. While you are lying on the bed the sky is framed by the river banks and the beams, turning the sky into a screen in which it’s proper rhythm would be perceived. Your head is only a few centimeters away from the water, making the rhythm of the water perceptible through sound. Your own rhythm is perceptible through the swinging your body induce.
Atelier Professor Bijoy Jain,
Workshop Professor, Sami Rintala Bachelor 3, Semestre 2, 2015 Accademia di Architettura di mendrisio, (USI)
A shelf, Industrial Design In collaboration with Nitya Duella
Problematic of the class: To design and construct a piece of furniture following the IKEA concept.
Our response: We decided to develop a shelf following the idea of a modular construction. The shelf can therefore be adapted to different situations and spaces. It consists of tree sizes of vertical pillars and tree sizes of horizontal planes. They would be bought separately so that they can combine in any mode. The shelf needs no fixing to the wall or the floor, it is totally free standing as long as three or more pillars are used, it can therefore also be used as a space separator. The assembling principal is simple, once bought the whole structure is built only with the help of a screwdriver.
Professor Thomas KrĂ l Bachelor 2, Semestre 2, 2013 Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL), ECAL
Curriculum Vitae
Education: 1998-2002: Ecole Primaire de Bogis-Bossey, VD 2002-2010: IGCSE, International school of Geneva 2007-2010: Internation Baccalaureate, EIG,International School of Geneva. 2010-2012: Corse of special mathematics, EPFL Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne. 2012- : Bachelor of Architecture, EPFL Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne. 2014- : Swiss Mobility exchange program at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, (USI)
Languages: Frenche: Mother tongue English: Mother tongue German: Goeuthe certificat, (C1 level, not practiced since 2012) Italian: Currently learning, conversation level.
Informatic: Autocad Rhinoceros Google Sketchup Adobe indesign Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Keynote
Interests: Painting Industrial Design Trips (been to five continents) Ski, Tennis
Contact: Phone:
(0041)794763436
Email:
dan.relecom@epfl.ch
Address:
9, rue jean-louis-de-bons 1006, Lausanne Suisse