- BuildingsMixed-Use Conversion Denkmalstrasse Lucerne
- Vertical Factory Komax AG
- Plant Manager's Home
- Cultural youth centre Schappe Süd
- Primary 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
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- Municipal centre / Raiffeisenbank
- Obermarch school centre
- Stucki single-family home
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- Tivoli lake restaurant and yacht club
- Transportation headquarter
- Lakeside residence
- Car park with exhibition hall
- Silo tower
- Rowing centre Rotsee
- Refuse incineration plant
- Recycling centre
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- Place of contemplation
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- Window factory extension
- Niklaus Graber & Christoph Steiger Anthologie Bd. 1
Single-family house in Ermensee
| Location | Ermensee LU |
| Client | Privat |
| Planning | 2004–2005 |
| Construction | 2005–2006 |
| Architects | Steiger & Kraushaar Architekten with Graber & Steiger Architekten |
| Project architect | Roger Kraushaar, Steiger & Kraushaar Architekten |
| Photographer | F. Simonetti |
The site for the prospective single-family house is located in a privileged situation on the northeast head of a moraine hill arising from the plain of the Lucerne Seetal. The mood of the location is determined by an existing single-family house in modernist style situated on a south-facing slope of the hill planted with vines, as well as a group of old trees; the view is largely restricted to the north, east and west. The ambiguous situation in which the side with the view is not orientated towards the sunny aspect led to the creation of a courtyard-like building volume that appears to be clinging to the moraine hill. Whereas the two-storey view-orientated façade emerging from the slope is generously designed, a wind-protected courtyard that serves as an extension to the living spaces and provides it with light is situated towards the south. This typology makes it possible to construct a southern building on a north-facing slope. The vertical formwork in mahogany-brown acrylic resin boards and the multiply kinked copper roof refer to the building structure, which is primarily a wooden post construction. The materials refer to the local rural atmosphere and exude a homely intimacy. Large, dormer-like windows that frame the view and the encircling glazing to the inner courtyard open up the building at specific points and evoke a spatial aura dovetailed with the surrounding environment.
