Location | Buttisholz LU |
Client | Tschopp Holzindustrie AG |
Commission | Study competition on invitation 2012–2013 |
Architects | Graber & Steiger Architekten |
Public debate on the establishment of a private, large-scale industrial building in the landscape continues to be controversial. In our design, we therefore envisage a transformation of fields of significance that gives the silo a multifaceted legibility and therefore makes it more acceptable. The design attempts to influence the perception of the building in a way that releases the silo architecture from its exclusively industrial legibility and places it in a rural context. By perforating the otherwise hermetic building volume, it receives a playful, poetic dimension that evokes new legibilities thanks to the deliberately provoked, active interplay between the building and the viewer. Various aspects of content related to the specific building task, such as «full and empty», «heavy and light» and «opaque and transparent» are all concisely addressed. A subtle game of questions and answers develops between the building and the viewer.
The current issue 13/2022 of TEC21 introduces the mixed-use conversion on Denkmalstrasse in Lucerne. Among others, the report highlights how the specific concept of the building achieves a lofty spatial openness despite a highly dense urban context and how the simple and raw spaces invite to a playful appropriation for living and working. Minimalism as an offer!