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 proposal for the new water sports base at la Jonction in Geneva has won the open competition among 73 national and international entries!
The design, in the breathtaking setting where the Arve and Rhone rivers converge in the city, is based on a concept of circular reuse. In the spirit of urban mining and to largely reduce gray energy, our project called "OBJETS TROUVÉS" proposes the conversion of an existing office building and the reuse of long-span steel trusses from a nearby dismantled hall.
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26 - 28 March and 2 -12 April 2024
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28 March, 12:30, Forum Faubourg