Suurstoffi West
2016
Zug Estates AG
Suurstoffi, Luzern
University of Luzern, retail, office, housing, student accommodation
27'000 sqm
Invited Competition, 4th Rank
Hosoya Schaefer Architects AG
Burckhardt+Partner AG
Basler & Hofmann AG
Amstein+Walthert AG
3-Plan Haustechnik AG
Hager Partner AG
RSI-Studio
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.
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Current phase: construction project
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Current phase: construction project
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Future Parking Facility with retail component
Current phase: execution
Station Square and Roof, Herisau 2015 –
Current phase: public vote
MEWA-Areal, Wädenswil, 2018 –
Transformation Project from the former industrial estate to the mixed-use development with housing
Current phase: framework plan
Viererfeld, Bern, 2018 –
Housing
Current phase: on hold
Office Renovation, Zug, 2020 –
Current phase: execution
House Renovation, Zug, 2020 –
Current phase: preliminary planning
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Current phase: preliminary planning
Cooperative Housing, Wetzikon, 2020 –
Current phase: preliminary planning
Salina Raurica / Salinenhofquartier, Pratteln, 2018 –
Current state: urban framework plan
Metalli, Zug, 2017 –
Current state: urban framework plan
Tech Cluster Zug, 2015 –
Current state: transformation plan
Elbinselquartier Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg, 2015 –
Current state: design guidelines
Bahnstadt Nürtingen, 2017 –
Current state: design manual
Urban Space Development Concept for SBB Basel Station, 2018 –
Current state: public consultation
KNZ Wil West, Thurgau / St. Gallen, 2011 –
Current state: urban framework plan
Station Area Dietikon, 2019 –
Current state: study with recommendation for further development
Areal Dübendorf, 2020 –
Current state: study
Areal Oerlikon, 2020 –
Current state: study
Areal Dierikon, 2015 –
Current state: urban framework plan
Station Herisau, 2013 –
Current state: areal development
Innovation Park Bergedorf, 2020 –
Current state: urban framework
Seetalstrasse Meierhöfli Emmen, 2020 –
Current state: test planning
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Current state: ongoing (with Studio Vulkan)
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Current state: study
Port City Riga, 2020 –
Current state: Urban design commission
Wankdorffeldstrasse, Bern, 2020 –
Current state: urban design study
St-Karli Brückenköpfe und Reussinsel, Luzern, 2020 –
Current state: urban design study
Campus Bochum, 2018 –
Current state: urban framework plan
Masterplan HB / Central 2050, Zurich, 2020 –
Current state: test planing (with Studio Vulkan)
cividi gmbh – civic data intelligence, 2019 –
Digital tools for the analogue city
Current state: ongoing
The Industrious City – Book Publication, 2017 –
(Lars Müller Publishers)
Published in fall 2020
Workplace Area Development, Winterthur, 2019 –
Current state: ongoing
Network strategy 2040 and
future public transport 2050, Zurich, 2020 –
Current state: ongoing (with IBV Hüsler)