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Parish Center Gerliswil Refurbishment and Expansion / Lussi + Partner AG

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 06:00:00 +0000

The church precinct in Gerliswil, with its distinctive neo-baroque church crowning the hill, forms an idyllic oasis in Emmenbrücke. The 1970s brutalist church community center integrates seamlessly into the hillside. While its volumetrics recede in deference to the church, it retains an independent, expressive presence typical of its era. The renovation and expansion have clarified its structure, connecting the building with the height of the church. The existing base now supports a new hall extension with a striking copper roof, eloquently signifying its new role as a public institution.

4Viertel Residential and Commercial Development / Lussi + Partner AG

Hadir Al Koshta — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The 4Viertel district, located at Seetalplatz in Emmenbrücke, expands the Viscos area and creates a distinctive gateway to the new neighborhood. It preserves the industrial charm of the area while integrating modern urban qualities through plazas and alleys between the buildings. In addition to the existing cinema building, three new constructions have been added, providing a total of 45,000 square meters of net floor space for housing, shops, offices, restaurants, and leisure facilities.

Lucerne School of Art and Design / EM2N

Daniela Cardenas — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 02:00:00 +0000

On the industrial site of the former monofilament manufacturer Viscosuisse and today’s Monosuisse AG in Emmenbrücke, a new urban district, to be known as the Viscosistadt, will be developed in the near future. While preserving the diversity of the existing buildings, the urban quality of the site will be further strengthened and developed. The first measure is the conversion of Building 745 into the new location for the Lucerne School of Art and Design. Part of the Viscosuisse legacy, this strongly expressive building shapes the character of the site. The structure has wide spans and is made up of columns, down-beams and prefabricated ribbed concrete ceiling slabs, producing generously sized, uninterrupted spaces. In order to preserve the quality of this fine example of Swiss engineering architecture and to make it usable, our intervention is as direct and restrained as possible.

Europan 10 Project / DROM

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 02:00:00 +0000

A europan 10 winner, Suture is a project that provided a solution to the problem of a fractured site, the ownership of which was irregularly and inconveniently divided between the Municipality of Emmen and the housing corporation Lefier.

Orangerock / Möhn + Bouman

Daniel Sánchez — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The client, a small innovative project developer called Orangerock, acquired a piece of land close to the city centre for future redevelopment, planned to take place within ten years. On the site some old buildings can be found that will eventually be demolished. Until that moment the developer decided to temporary use one of the available buildings, an old rustique house, as his office.

Urban Hybrid Housing Winning Proposal / MVRDV

Alison Furuto — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 01:00:00 +0000

MVRDV was just announced by the city of Emmen, Switzerland as the winners of the Feldbreite competition for a housing block, which consist of 95 homes of 16 different types. Their urban hybrid development proposal combines characteristics of city dwelling – central location, privacy, underground parking – with the characteristics of suburban life: gardens, multilevel living and a neighborhood community. Construction is expected to start in 2015. More images and architects’ description after the break.