






































| Location | Kantonsstrasse 114, Schübelbach SZ |
| Client | BEZIRK MARCH |
| Commission | Open competition 1998 |
| Planning | 1999–2000 |
| Construction | 2000–2001 |
| Architects | Graber & Steiger Architekten, Project Architect: Urs Schmid |
| Consultants | Project management: BSS Architekten, Structural engineer: L. Balestra AG Jona / P. Meier + Partner, Façade engineering: Mebatech AG, Landscape architect: Stefan Koepfli, Artist: Roland Herzog |
| Photographer | H. Helfenstein |
The secondary school for 450 pupils stands as a compact facility with strictly defined spaces, expressing an urban character at the edge of a landscape characterised by the River Linth. The conglomerate of mutually referential individual buildings forms a memorable overall form that is embedded into the foot of the slope. The clinker brick building uses its changing interplay of reddish and silver colours to create a connection with the natural tones of the surrounding environment. The central schoolyard, around which the facility is arranged, gives the school its specifically public character. Its exact demarcation contrasts with the surrounding landscape. The transparent ground floor, with its perspectives and views, mediates between the constructed and the untouched natural world.

We are delighted to announce that our team has won the competition for a residential and mixed-use building in the centre of the municipality of Horw, south of Lucerne.
As the competition motto JANUS suggests, our approach is characterized by a multifaceted compound that responds subtly to the given heterogeneous context. The urban boullevard in the north is addressed just as the park-like open space towards the south.
The staggered and porous structure leaves maximum green space and accommodates a variety of apartment types, collective rooms and commercial premises that contribute to a vital a tivation of the neighbourhood.
The simple and robust structural and spatial concept enables a long life span while leaving flexibility for future adaptation. The deep, verana-like facade layers act as a climate-sensitive treshold space and expands the interiors multifunctionally.