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Professional experience

AlexiaSawerschelSwiss04.03.19893a Rebhüsliweg, 8046 Zürich alexias@student.ethz.ch

+41 78 867 77 21

FormationLanguage Ski l ls 2008-2012 ETH Zürich

Bachelor of architecture

2004-2008 Collège de SaussureMaturité cantonale, passed with diploma and with the average 5.4 on 6

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe In-Design, Archicad, Vectorworks, Rhinoceros, Cinema 4D Microsoft Office (World, Excel, Powerpoint)

Interest

InterestArt, architecture & design, music (piano), travel-ling, running, skydiving, diving, dancing (salsa), read-ing, drawing.

Strong critical and analytical skill. good listening skills, high resistance to stress, ability to work ef-ficiently individually or in team, creative and cu-rious mind, very high adaptability, openness.

Competencies

Competencies

Computer Ski l ls

Computer Ski l l s

French mother tongue

English C1 level, fluent 3 months at the International House on Cairns

German C2 level, fluent studies in Zürich

Japanese A2 level, beginner 1 year study, 6 months in Tokyo

2010 -2011 AllesWirdGut GmbH, Vienna 5 month internship

2009- 2010 Manor, Geneva Winter job, sport departement.

2008 ARA, Geneva private lessons for highschool students

2008 Foyer Butini, Geneva Cleaning and care in a home for old people

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Anette Spiro

Marc Angélil

Dietmar Eberle

Hans Kollhoff

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Tokyo

AllesWirdGut GmbH, Vienna

Studio Basel

BPOC Student Competition

Adam Caruso

Peter Märkli

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Internship

Graphic Anatomy II

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The idea is to tighten cables between the fruit trees to build hanging connecting path, so that the gardner easily move from treetop to treetop to pick fruits and cut branches. At the crossing point of all paths, the gardner‘s house is hanged after the same principle.The walls are made out of air cushion framed by the tighte-ned cables. It softly fits in with the surrounding natur.The project is a system which could be used everywhere where there are trees and could be extended as the user wishes.

Bodenplatte+3.00 m

Ostansicht M 1:20

Patenobjekt: Red House Situation: Grundriss Situationsfoto im Modell Lichtstimmungsituationsplan situationsphoto Innenbild

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Situationsschnitt

Tree House Studio Anette Spiro

House for a gardner2nd semester ETHZ

with Romana Castiglioni

Situation ModelConstruction Detail

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+3.20 m

Plan floor 1:100

Tree House

The construction is loaded with traction, by means of steel cable tightened beetween trees. In order to be very light, the living space closed by isolating air cushions, that are fitted in steel frames. The house is moving as the trees move with the wind. This is made possible trough a flexible hose that enables movement between the frames and the cables. The whole infrastructure runs through a pipe that substitutes one of the tree holding the house.

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Section BB Elevation BB Elevation AA 1:100

Tree House

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Section AA1:20

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Structure

structure exercice3rd semester ETHZ

with Stéphanie Savio

The main structure consists of two “pliers“ : two parallel walls, that hold the auditorium - the core. This room is self-supporting, with a ribbed-ceiling and supporting walls, which run perpendicular to the “pliers“. The two housing blocks grow around the supporting main walls. By the edge of the ceilings some pillars are necessary. Under the auditorium, the stairs extend along the blocks. There are two of this stairs - one for each block. They are parallel but run in opposite direction. The two blocks are slightly shifted to let more space for office rooms on the side of the auditorium. The lifts and emergency stairs are situated in these additive spaces and constitute a third load-carrying element.

Studio Dietmar Eberle

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Model picturessection trough the main hall

Dietmar Eberle

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Shellshell exercice

3rd semester ETHZwith Stéphanie Savio

Our goal was to create a facade which fits in the street without directly copying material or architectural design. neighborhood. We tried to create a detailed facade without use of ornaments. The rythm is quiet dense with many vertical and horizontal elements, but the overall expression is quiet. The element of the dormer windows is borrowed from an other building on the street and reinterprated in « Laterne » windows. The last floor is at regular intervals heightened to enable a better light incidence. The window for the shops in the ground floor are integrated in the design of the facade.

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Street elevation using the horizontal and vertical rythm of the surrounding fassadesModel Pictures

Dietmar Eberle

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Materiality

Materiality exercice4th semester ETHZwith Fortesa Softa

The people coming in the main hall of the courthousefeel immediately, that they’re in the heart of the building . This hall should at the same time create a feeling of security and of respect, because a courthouse is the place wherebalance is restored. The materiality thereforeshould help the building design to have representativeas well as welcoming qualities. The hall is representative trough its big dimension but also trough the symetry, the courtroom in the centre, the solid concrete structure and the panelled ceiling.The feeling of warmth and security isgiven by the wooden wall and the soft lighting atmosphere conveyed by the hell and raw travertin floor and the quarz sandstone.

Gipser plaster boards

Travertin

Quarzite

Concrete

Merbau

Studio Dietmar Eberle

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Model picturessection trough the main hall and front side

Dietmar Eberle

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Studio Hans Kollhoff

Facade of Renaissance churchSan Lorenzo di Firenze

5th semester ETHZ

In San Lorenzo the feelings of lightness, luminosity, strength and harmony are to be sensed, due to Brunelleschi and its understanding of tectonic und materiality. The nacked wall is intentionaly showed, structuring elements let the supporting and loading be sensed. Nevertheless nothing on the outside makes one sense the inside. The rustique facade hides the subtile essence of the interior. The new facade should bring the harmony of the inner spaces to the outside. In this project, the reliefs and profiles of the entablatures are relatively flat to reflect the subtile structuring element of the interior space. Three arcs mark the different naves. They cut deeper in the wall because they’re impor-tant element inside the church. The hierarchy of the naves is showed on the facade. The facade subdivides tectonic in three parts: main nave, aisles and chapels, overlayed so that both unity and the different parts are recognisable. The material of the facade is called Pietra serena, a local stone popular in the Renaissance.The differenciation of colors made inside the church between wall and structuring elements is used on the facade, however with less contrast to let in fit in with the side facade.The doors are framed, like in the facade of San Miniato al Monte in florence, and also supported by pilasters.

San Lorenzo

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left: existing vs projected facadeabove: rendering inside (existing)/ outside (projected)

ALEXIA SAWERSCHEL

Assistent Markus Tubbesing

Herbstsemester 2011

Innen-Aussenansichte

San Lorenzo di FirenzeALEXIA SAWERSCHEL

Assistent Markus TubbesingProfessur Hans Kollhoff

Herbstsemester 2011

AUSSEN-INNEN

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horizontal sections 1:200 upper , middle and bottom “houses“

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Socle Detail 1:50The pilasters, are organized after Alberti’s principle: they’re the essential supporting part of the wall. Every pilaster has a defined struc-tural role, that is recognisable in the hierarchic design of the socle.

Hans Kollhoff

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Elevation 1:100Section 1:200

San Lorenzo di FirenzeALEXIA SAWERSCHEL

Assistent Markus TubbesingProfessur Hans Kollhoff

Herbstsemester 2011

SCHNITT-ANSICHT-KREUZPFEILER 1:50

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Facade from inside and outside 1:200

Hans Kollhoff

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San Lorenzo

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San Lorenzo

Hans Kollhoff

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Studio Basel is researching about the transformation pro-cesses of contemporary cities under globalization pressures. They are looking for the impact of these forces on territories and dealing with “specificity“ : Their aim is to show why cities that are drawn into the undertow of global developments do not become immersed in placeless uniformity, but develop new differentiations. In order to find concrete answers we have ventured to the territory of Northern Vietnam The Red River Delta’s. My group concentrated on the topic of Trans-port and Mobility.During the last decades, the face of Red River Delta’s streets completely changed. The motorbikes conquered Vietnam un-believably fast and causes since recently increasing resistence reactions against its negative side effects.However the motorbike is convenient for many uses. While its small size allows very individual and flexible movement pat-terns, it can also carry more than one person and big loads. The freedom in its use, enhanced by the lack of implemented regulations, impacts on daily habits, and thus on the physical repartition of activities in the urban fabric. The flexibility pro-vided by the individual transport means leaves its mark on the city fabric. Most of the ground floors, sidewalks and streets, from the old quarter to the suburban roads, are occupied with restaurants, cafés, markets, shops and every other kind of commercial activity. It results in a flat, non-hierarchical use of the urban network, whithout clearly defined hubs or main streets.This flexible and diverse character of mobility plays an active role in the society. By opening many possiblities, it allows ad-aptability to the evoluting urban conditions. In this regard it is a catalyst for the bottom-up economy. On the other hand, the booming economical development requires new visions for Hanoi to become a competitive me-tropole. This intention calls for order and hierarchy, and the-refore needs to minimize the dense activities on the streets.

Transport and MobilityStudio Basel

Prof. Roger Diener and Marcel MeiliUrban research

Red River Delta, Vietnam6th Semester ETH

with Romana Castiglioni and Stéphanie Savio

research online : http://www.studio-basel.com/projects/red-river-del-

ta/student-work/transport-and-mobility.html

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– The Apennine Counter Space –

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The pavilion takes the direction of the Theaterstrasse, which spans a new elongated square beyond the existing trees of the site. This space interacts directly with the existing place around the Tinguely fountain and in the larger sense with the other places nearby, creating a new atmosphere - the different paths are gathered in a protected, shadowed place defined by our building which gives Basel a new urban quality.The construction consists of a stable modular concrete roof, lying on twelve columns and two stiffened, angled concrete walls. The durable structure is enveloped by a light wooden panel construction, finding its architectural expression in tent shape analogy.The long term vision is that the un-crowded space formed by the structure remains removable allowing the possible use of concrete canopy. The floor plan follows the grid pattern of the foldin roof in a playful, but still coherent way. It allows the use of prefabricated wooden panels, a fast and economic building process. The pavilion interacts with the surrounding urban en-vironment, helping the orientation of the visitors.The main façade expends towards the square with four en-trances, following the concept of an orangerie. Towards the intersection, a kiosk attracts by-passers and visitors with updates on Basel’s art scene. Looking at the other end of the building, a small café can be used independently allowing continuous operation in the evening with access to public washrooms. The main hall consists of the three flexible and expandable units towards the information desk and the café. The hall can also be converted either into a large function space for exhibitions and events or be divided in several smal-ler spaces by light walls or curtains. The pavilion is designed to be a lively and flexible space aimed at wide range use.

Pavillon of CultureStudent Competition

Basel Pavillon of CultureWith Romana Castiglioni

Besa Zajmi, Cristiano Aires Texeraand Mauro

Ground floor plan 1:500

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West facade and Parc Perspective

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Kasernen arealStudio Adam Caruso

“Metropolis“:Urban planning in Zurich

8th semester ETHZwith Sarah Federli

Floor Plan

Respecting the wish that was often expressed in the long history of discussion about the Kaserneareal, we decided to keep the big existing free space, therefore adding an urban open space additionaly to the Josephwiese, Beckeranlage, Platzspitz, and the lake area, but an open space with a diffe-rent quality. We also based our project on the central and monumental composition of the Kaserne, based on the idea of a barock castle complex, that offered us the possibility to create a new strong public space. We keep the Kaserne building as the head of our open spa-ce. Using the Palais Royal in Paris as reference, we surroun-ded the whole place with a colonade, in order to produce a perfect enclosed and noble space. This urban place is co-vered some green and gravel, which makes it confortable for recreation and activities of the urban life, as such as markets, summer open air cinema, concerts or an ice rink.The colonade connects the surrounding buildings to each other and also acts as as transition between thebuildings and the open space, . The entrances situated bet-ween these buildings are in the continuation ofthe streets behind. The horizontal arching of the colonade encloses the space even more and enhance the rythm of its enormous length. They are welcoming restaurants, cafés and cultural spots or for exemple wineries and little shops.On the Kaserne side , a perystile acts as a filter and creates a smaller place in front of the Kaseren, to introduce the big one. On the other side, there is a hall for public events or exhibition, which is one story higher than the colonnade. The first floor of all buildings are semi public on the parc side and can make use enjoy a connecting big terasse.The facade facing the place are verticaly articulated, to ac-centuate and give a rythm to iths impressive length.The main elements are in prefabricated stone and the surfaces behind are in plaster. The other fassades at the street side are less richly materialized, to concentrate the majesty in the center.

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Sectiontrough the kaserne and facade of the new

buildings from the parcElevation 1:100

with materiality Section 1:100

trough the facade and arcade

SARAH FEDERLI & ALEXIA SAWERSCHEL

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SARAH FEDERLI & ALEXIA SAWERSCHEL

Adam Caruso

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SARAH FEDERLI & ALEXIA SAWERSCHEL

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SARAH FEDERLI & ALEXIA SAWERSCHEL

Model pictureView trough the arcades

Adam Caruso

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Model picture

ALEXIA SAWERSCHEL & SARAH FEDERLI

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ALEXIA SAWERSCHEL & SARAH FEDERLI

Adam Caruso

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Model picture atmosphere picture : Berlin in 1990

for the reference book on Metropolis with Dominik Boos, Lukas Murer,

Sarah Federli and Jonathan Banz

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The buildings are situated in closed to the radiostudio cros-sing in zurich, at the edge of the city center. I choosed to build not directly at the crossing, but a little further on the Wehntalerstrasse, where the underground train comes out of the earth. The train tracks are still sunken, splitting the surrounding building in two areas. The new buildings sit on the concrete plateform, that cover the the train after it co-mes out of the tunnel. Between the two buildings, the street level is kept trough an other artificial plateform, as a response to the underlying one. On the other sides of the buildings, which sit in the normal ground floor, the natural slope is kept. The two buildings are articulated with two “heads“ turning once to the view over the train tracks, and in the opposite direction to the Wehntalerstrasse, presenting a public front to the street.There are four types of apartements, which have a rich inner life, though they have small dimensions . The living room and kitchen are not really separated, but articulated, in order to create one bigger common space with various qualities and atmospheres. The relationship to the outside space and the changes from one appartement type to another. The loggia is sometimes seen as a continuation the room inside of the building, sometimes as a distinguished space, whith the wall inbetween acting as a third, mediating space.The structure is efficient, with only two staircases for each buildings, but every inhabitant can find his own personal world once inside of his apartment, which differs from his neigbours ones, though they all have the same spirit.

City and HouseStudio Peter Märkli

Housing complex in Radiostudio Zurich

9th semester ETHZ

Floor Plan 1:2000

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north elevation 1:500 with section trough the concrete plateform

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floor plan1:200

Peter Märkli

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Model pictureview over kitchen, loggia, living room and multiuse separable room.

Peter Märkli