dokumentation easa005.ch - professur für architektur und städtebau ...

organisation
preparations / cleaning up in bergün
Preparations
Cleaning up
participants upon arrival in Bergün
the torrent river after the big rain
Participants waiting at the station in Bergün
for the train back to Zurich. Many of them
stayed a couple of days in Zurich or did
some travelling around Europe before finally
returning back to their home countries.
Preparing the site for easa005
Two weeks before the actual start of EASA, the whole group of
organisers travelled to Bergün to start all the preparations.
The Zeughaus had to be cleaned first and then the pallets arrived
on a big truck. With cardboard on top, they were used
as underground for sleeping areas and also for the bar in the
cellar of the Zeughaus, for the outdoor showers, for the dishwashing
area etc.
A lot of work had to be done. Curtains were hanged to separate
sleeping areas, sanitary installations had to be connected,
electronic cables had to be laid out and tested, fire protection
stairs had to be built, the bar had to be constructed, signs
were designed, keys collected and numbered...
The days were filled with hard physical work and organising
and collecting material in the whole area as well as transporting
other things up to Bergün from Zurich.
At nights the organisers would fall into their sleepingbag beds
and dream about the coming event, before they woke up in
the mornings with muscle pain and other hard working days to
come...
After all: the cleaning up
The cleaning up of the area after the event was even harder
than the preparations had been. First of all, it was raining cats
and dogs (during that time, many areas of Switzerland and
neighbouring countries were flooded). The bridge between the
Zeughaus and the Kurhaus had to be closed, as the swollen
river washed away parts of the bank. This meant a longer way
trough the village for every of the endless transports of material
between the buildings.
The mood of the organisers and the few participants staying
behind to help was a bit similar to the weather: grey, tired and
sad that everything was over already.
Trucks were coming again to get everything from tools to pallets.
A special and very tricky event was the picking up of the
huge trans.ID container that was to go back to Belgium. It was
milimeters work to get it up onto the lorry and drive it downwards
on the Albula Pass road through all the small villages.
Everything that couldn’t be given back, was sold at a small
auction to locals. Bathtubs, tools, dishes and wood were carried
away and remain in Bergün as a leftover of EASA...
hard working organisers
installation of the showers hungry crowd at lunch
trans.ID container is loaded for its trip back to Belgium
“loading in the rain” local farmers loading their auctioned bathtubs
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