hospitality

10 years 2002-2012 7 000 trained managers

Ten years of teaching and practice of design hotels as professor of technical planning, restaurant concepts, design and facility management at EHL (Ecole htelire de Lausanne, 2002-2012, www.ehl.ch) were used to develop a general planning theory of large and small hotel projects. The hotel seen as a system requires an approach to its suitability to the market (the type of customer) to the destination (the site of implantation), its life cycle (sustainable development) and financial characteristics (a value real estate investment flexibility or functional retraining, its evolution). During these ten years of teaching and consulting at all levels (learning courses bachelor, master courses, dissertations, and expertise with the company Lausanne Hospitality Consulting), hundreds of hotels construction case studies have been addressed and resolved.

Porto Alegre (Brazil), 400 rooms, 10 ha

Full redesign of the front sea, with a mall multi hotel convention center, restaurants, bars, night clubs and shops use. Integral approach and project operations.

Holistic operations concept

Facility management scheme includes all the costs of hotel facilities: energy, water, maintenance, security, etc..

Contributing approaches
Group of learners work together in hospitality and construction professionals solution projects. Flexible sizes of addressed cases (0.1 million to 200 million sfr.).

Owner consulting

Study groups examine projects between hospitality students, architects and clients (here a family office wanting to build a Motel).

large projects

Working with general contractors reform the position of the architect. Agents of change become actors in the creative solutions in the planning and construction process. Openness, meeting deadlines, addressing synthesis problems and progressive spirit in mastering the complex project. This is a new business in the Swiss planning and construction industry.

Works in progress now (2013).

Around a hundred dwellings...

140 meters of housing in length along the Lausanne area peripheral Highway. Purpose: to protect noise as dike towards a silent south side with view to Geneva lake, and South balconies.

at Mont-surLausanne (VD)
Project 2009-2011, new anti-noise faade reflecting vertically noise soundwaves (active wings) diffsing road vibrations and engine rumors vertically, and not towards neighbours. 40 millions sfr.. Ralization 2012-2015. Family office project.

Htel & Shopping, Lausanne West

Project developed with one of the largest general contractors in Switzerland. Several iterations and successive common choice with a Family office (25 million sfr.).

Motel PoliezPittet (VD)

A point of sale hotel first element of a network of Lausanne area motels, 4 million francs, building permits in 2012, 2013-14 construciton. Family office project.

industry services

Good design in a work structure must minimize the effort and facilitate productive activity. Flexible schemes, they must also include modularity, and an evolutionary factors. Whether it is in an industrial park or intensive services such as catering, this new vision generates efficiency. Finally the simplest constructive choices are the best. Lightweight roof, carrying long-range structure, use of existing spaces in the production process or imagine next steps of buildings life cycles or renovations.

Bipole Yverdonles-Bains

An eye catcher at Yverdon Highway exit

The structure used is a roof airport developed in Central Europe. This is the first application in Switzerland of this innovative lightweight roof and gives a distinctive silhouette.

Restaurant 200 seats, Vevey

The reuse of the former post hotel between the Trois Couronnes Palace Hotel and the historic former headquarters of Nestl features a new outlet for restoration.

Geneva Lake Terrasses

This new restaurant is designed as a meeting place and conviviality. The project is promoted by a Berne family office. Cost approx. 1 million sfr. Project, 2010-13.

Designed and built opposite to the Science and simultaneously to the foundation of Technology Park of Yverdon-les-Bains, 1988-1990, 7 millions sfr.

site planning

The square of the success invented by Antoine Wasserfallen and published in his PhD thesis in 1999 features exactly the synergic combination of interests. No government: no framework conditions, investors without any infrastructure funding. And one must always ask who are the customers of the proposed project. Those angles arranged one after the other, allow the correct implementation of such projects.

More than one hundred planned hectares in Western Switzerland.

Landfill stone quarry St.Triphon (VD)

Economic feasibility study (70 million francs) and verification of legal feasibility (planning, constructability) by slag recycling plant for waste incineration neighboring SATOM, covered with grassy mantle. 1994-2020, 10 Ha.

Cable factory Cossonay (VD)

Esplanade SA Development with Itten + Brechbhl SA, concept by A. Wasserfallen redevelopment and redesign of the layout of the entire site map (20 ha) of cable factory Cossonay Penthalaz Station (1998-2002). Previous assignment by Nexans (Alcatel subsidiary), 2013 plan by third parties.

Industrial Village, Valle de Joux

Rethinking industrial areas for the future of the great centers of the Swiss plateau is important, but taking care of the watchmaking luxury cluster is also a priority in the Jura, 1991-1994. In that case economic and concept planning (including regulating the area) only.

Invent, launch Y-Parc SA

1st Science Parc in Switzerland: feasibility Study (1986), then seed capital raised (about 3 millions sfr.), A. Wasserfallen is shareholder and member of the 1st Board of Directors (1986-1992). 50 hectares.

renovations ancient villas

Interventions in existing buildings: in Switzerland many families possess houses that need to be renovated. For members of teaching staff, it is difficult to find an architect who holds a trustful dialogue with them before taking decisions. This dialogue is very important, and alternate schemes are all carefully evaluated before the ultimate decisions are made, particularly in a family context; hence this process that needs to be strong may seem long in the relationship between the client (owner) and the architect. The architectural results are also very good, level of publication in a professional journals of architecture.

Villa Chef Beerens

Housing and apartments for rent (400 m2) of the EHL head chef of the gourmet restaurant (1990-2011) of the Hotel School of Lausanne, Epalinges, 2006-2009 realization. Approx. 0,7 million sfr.

Transparent Structure
The intention was to maintain the original aspect of the old barn and to keep some wood and some transparency. The middle slab is suspended from the roof.

Villa Professeur Vautravers

Ancient villa of 300 m2 in the vineyards of the Vaud Coast. Complete overhaul of all interior spaces, new kitchen (Bulthaup), new space in the living room 8 x 8 m, from 2008 to 2012, about 0.6 million francs.

Structure 100% revisited

The main structural beams (1st image on left) in the living Professor Vautravers were implemented by a team of railway engineering and fully integrated into the thickness of the wood frame: we do not see them any more!

historic mansions realizations

Family and heritage are very important issues in Europe and Switzerland. Renovating heritage is a life project in the long term for a property that has a history in itself and it is far from simple. Architectural strategy must be carefully calibrated. The balance between family and tactical needs of architectural choices, and assuming the dialogue with the authorities and services of heritage protection. With heart, the owners and the architect, contractors must contribute to the history of the life of the building, which will be transmitted to the next home owner, member of the family or not ...

The Cottage Lausanne

Partial renovation in the historic homestead (1612) Vaud near the center of the city. The interventions included technical networks. 1987-9, 150 m2, 0.5 million sfr.

Little Castles Saint-Aubin (NE)

Complete renovation 380 m2 (1888) with the introduction of a new energy system (heat pumps and solar thermal and photovoltaic), park and banks, 1988-9, 2 million sfr.

Tillierstrasse 9 Berne
Contiguous (1906) house of my sons and their mother in the historic district of Kirchenfeldbrcke with recovery of the entire structure in a large open ground floor space, from 1999 to 2000, 0.5 million sfr.

The Burg 6 Moudon (VD)

One of two family homes (1550) I renovated in the historic district of the Village of the medieval capital city of the State of Vaud. 2002-3, 0.5 million sfr.

interdisciplinarity

Antoine Wasserfallen in 2011 was a member of the working group of the National BIM SIA (Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects). He was the only Swiss Romand member. Ten years of teaching and practice of facility management at Ecole htelire de Lausanne (EHL) have allowed for him to solve the problem of creation of value chains and optimization in hospitality buildings. The philosophy and the "modus operandi" of those projects is based the "systems engineering", that is to say, a collection of macro-modules of expertise re-assembled in order to realize new ideas. It is an innovative re-configuration of existing knowledge, but impossible to realize or understand change. So it is easy for others to understand what the innovative proposal covers.

BIM building information modeling 7 May 2013, Geneva

New design that keeps data design and renovation for use during the operating cycle of buildings and infrastructure. All figures and details of the project remain to be perpetuated.

New interdisciplinary concepts

The design of buildings and infrastructure (fof factory of the future) are integrated into their facility management. Their use is only easier. Values and operating costs are controlled. Aeroground concept is also a cross paltform for experts in planes.

Numbers control (fp7, euresearch)

Resources savings (research project)

Development of water production as seriously threatened the twentyfirst century vital resource. It will be optimized, saved and then produced through a new physical-chemical cycle.

The interdepartmental projects, international bodies, international experts, are the key issues of communication between administrative entities or study. Coordinator fp7 two European applications (one on Museums, augmented reality and communication spaces).

exhibition design

The design exhibition was a parallel activity to teaching, either during Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL) or Ecole htelire de Lausanne (EHL) activities or in association with professional contexts (cooperative social IN3 research, Pec artist and creator of Franche-Comt). Projects in 2013 include the integration of augmented reality in museum settings (do better with existing motivate the public to return to cultural institutions) or for interactive catalogs & design exhibitions. The new meta-tools IT integrators are used in their most contemporary forms (automated synthesis, layout and automated forms, use of large databases, working in real time, changes in real time). Recognition of new businesses in the new century.

expo.02
The Swiss National Exhibition was a tender for interdisciplinary teams to plan and build four sites. Here coordination Itten + Brechbhl Nick Grimshaw Architects and Ove Arup.

Catalogue Pec
How to illustrate forty years of production of a polymorphic artist? What pictures do matter? How to stage pieces of art? How to compile a rational inventory?

EHL design course: 7 years

Creation of design courses for 3000 hoteliers bachelor. What bases to within 40 hours? Draw or not? Integrate the economic feasibility in the conductor and value creation over.

Fp7 culture call

The European research program requests contributions to museums to reclaim the public. Developing a concept and a formal request, ! 2.5 million budget.