Suurstoffi West
2016
Zug Estates AG
Suurstoffi, Luzern
University of Luzern, retail, office, housing, student accommodation
27'000 sqm
Invited Competition, 4th Rank
Burckhardt+Partner AG
Basler & Hofmann AG
Amstein+Walthert AG
3-Plan Haustechnik AG
Hager Partner AG
The building ensemble combines a school for finance and information technology, housing for students and residents, offices and retail. The combination of finance and IT generates potential. The building supports this new area of work, research and learning with openness, space for interaction and flexibility for reinvention – an urban laboratory for flows of information and finance.
The urban form mediates between the two urban typologies of the Suurstoffi neighbourhood – orthogonal along the railroad tracks, free-formed in the park. The buildings create two sides: urban and formal along Birkenstrasse with the main entrance of the HSLU, informal on the garden side.
The open space continues in the building as a cascade of stairs all the way to the roof terrace. On each floor there is a landing area with adjacent open workspaces that allow views in different directions. The first floor serves as a “piano nobile”, which links all areas of the school and addresses the HSLU square with Mensa and Cafeteria. Open and closed workspaces flow around the orthogonal classrooms and allow a diverse learning and working environment. Strong and weak functional relationships of the school are reflected in the spatial organization. Despite their complexity a mental map of the building emerges.
The plinth, piano nobile, terrace level, institutional and residential floors create a stack of identities, which are held together by a subtly differentiated facade. The main auditorium and the multifunctional event hall can be combined into a theatre with audience and stage.
Due to the structural system with non-bearing partition walls, the rational organization, and the flexible space concept, the building can be reconfigured in many ways to meet new challenges.
Station square and station roof in Herisau, Switzerland
Current phase: construction documents
Benninger Areal, housing and retail development
Current phase: preliminary design
Interior design for an apartment in Park Tower, Zug
Recently completed
Mobility Hub / parking facility with retail component, Zug
Current phase: preliminary design
Parking garage with shop in Zug, Switzerland
Current phase: preliminary design
Riedmatt Ebikon / housing, retail, ateliers
Current phase: framework plan
Qube Ebikon / housing, retail, offices
Current phase: framework plan
House Chile, innovative single family home in forrest setting
Current phase: building permit documents
Buchs Areal Fegeren, building for precision-industry
Current phase: study
House Kyoto, community living, Japan
Current phase: study
Lachen SZ Alpenblickstrasse / high-rise housing
Current phase: study
Bahnstadt Nürtingen, Nürtingen
Current state: masterplan and function plan
Neugasse Zürich, urban design concept with public participation
Current state: presentation of urban design concept
Dessauer Strasse, Wolfsburg
Current state: competition waiting for further commission
Herisau site development, Herisau
Current state: process support and test planning
Technologiecluster Zug Masterplan, Zug
Current state: urban framework plan and design concept
Masterplan Dierikon, Switzerland
Current state: masterplan waiting for further commission
HafenCity Elbbrückenquartier, Hamburg
Current state: masterplan and framework plan
Wilhelmsburg Elbinselquartier, Hamburg
Current state: masterplan, function plan and typology studies
National Innovation Park Switzerland, Hub Zurich
Current state: Study on mobility-infrastructure
Leica Areal
Current state: study completed, next phase in planning
Innovation- and production park Patton Barracks, Heidelberg
Current state: urban framework plan
Wil West, Kanton Thurgau
Current state: urban framework plan
Visp Sägematte, Valais
Current state: study
Urban framework plan for the city of Zug
Current state: recently completed
SmartUse / Space, Growth and BigData
Current state: ongoing
Winterthur 2040
Current state: ongoing
Harvard University Graduate School of Design / The Industrious City
Current state: in preparation
Development strategy for 3 communities in the Kanton St. Gallen, Switzerland