Location | Zug ZG |
Client | Canton of Zug |
Commission | Competition 2013 |
Planning | 2014–2020 |
Construction | 2021–2027 |
Architects | Graber & Steiger Architekten, Project Architect: Urs Schmid |
Consultants | Structural engineer: Dr. Schwartz Consulting, Project Manager: PBK AG, Mechanical Engineer: Markus Stolz, Electrical Engineer: Scherler AG |
Although the new headquarters were to occupy a considerable amount of urban space, this design ensures multifaceted legibility on different levels of scale due to its permeable structure, thereby allowing it to mediate between the different grains of the surrounding environment. The alternating stacking of building wings creates a multifaceted spatial principle that provides good overviews and order. The proposed typology with its courtyards, rooftop gardens and open and covered terraces enhances the workplaces, ensuring a balanced provision of daylight despite the great depth of the rooms. The chosen spatial principle – especially the spatially effective load-bearing structures – elegantly offers column-free rooms with maximum flexibility both on the ground floor and on the upper storeys. The headquarters’ direct construction method and concise symbolism are reminiscent of the character of traditional infrastructure buildings.
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!