- BuildingsPrimary school
- Residential building Mühle
- Residential building in a tree grove
- Extension for the Thun Panorama
- Single-family home W
- New replacement building Bühlegg
- Stahlton Bauteile AG office building
- AWZ housing
- Uri curative education centre
- Pilatus Kulm panorama gallery
- Villa by Lake Zug
- Villa by Lake Lucerne
- Window factory extension
- Single-family house in Ermensee
- Residential and commercial building
- Sports and multifunctional hall
- Municipal centre / Raiffeisenbank
- Obermarch school centre
- Stucki single-family home
- Projects«Paradies» residential buildings
- Tivoli lake restaurant and yacht club
- Production and Services Building KOMAX
- Transportation headquarter
- Cultural youth centre Schappe Süd
- Lakeside residence
- Car park with exhibition hall
- Silo tower
- Rowing centre Rotsee
- Refuse incineration plant
- Recycling centre
- Exhibition halls Allmend
- Art Museum Schlossberg
- Place of contemplation
- PublicationsBuildings and Projects
- Window factory extension
- Niklaus Graber & Christoph Steiger Anthologie Bd. 1
Silo tower
| 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.
