text: Research: "To the Water Please" Design Studio | VOLPATOHATZ
  Class Focus: Bachelor of Architecture Studio WS2008-09 Third Semester students
  Integration of natural and artificial structures
  A Pilgrim walk between the towns of Feldkirch and Einsiedeln gravel extraction works was created in Paspels after the '50s. The gravel extraction created 3 Paspels Lakes of which only one is currently actively used. Atypical of most lakes, it has fresh quality ground water flowing in and out of the lake. Today, the largest of the 3 lakes is used all year round for recreational fishing and during the summer months by bathers and windsurfers. The Community of Rankweil intends taking control of these extensively farmed countryside lakes for their future interests in the view of conserving nature, recreational fisheries and quiet recreation and ensure the embankments are to be re-naturalized with natural profiles. Visitors or users of the lake, cannot access the water where prohibition signage appears, however are able to do so via structural interventions such as roads and bridges or artificial levels, which are higher than the natural embankment. All new structures are to serve all users and allow a respectful dialogue between humans, animals and nature, whilst existing and non-permanent trails are to be eliminated.
  Groups of students were to develop a plan of Paspels Lakes and define suitable places for structural interventions based on the analysis.
  Groups of students were to then develop a network of pedestrian paths and platforms upon the water, areas for both bathing and fishing.
  Pacolli Labinot, Sevgi Murat, Bless Angela, Michel Rolf, Veladzic Ariana, Blaas Urban, Speckle Anna Maria, Wiesner Patrick, Keller Carina, Jochum Thomas, Rusch Marco, Ess David, Soboczynski Thomas, Wehinger Matthias