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.
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!