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Daillens Sports Facility / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000

With its small environmental footprint, the design for the new changing rooms and refreshment bar at Daillens Sports Centre is pioneering and ambitious, despite its modest functional programme. The old municipal changing facilities, dating from the 1970s, had become too run-down to renovate. And so the local authority decided to provide new facilities for its football team, FC Venoge. The building is organised along the axis of the football pitch, stretching out elegantly and topped with a large metal roof. The roof looks paper-thin, its ridge echoing the ridges of the Jura mountains in the background. The building is mainly made of wood, covering an area of less than 400 m2. It houses changing rooms and showers for the players along with a refreshment bar and its associated amenities and a space for the bowls club.

Dapples Building Elevation / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Paula Pintos — Thu, 11 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Densify the city. How can we respond qualitatively and not only quantitatively to this need for our cities to evolve? The LOCALARCHITECTURE elevation project at Avenue Dapples 5 in Lausanne offers an innovative approach by focusing on wooden construction.

Observation Hut Île aux Oiseaux / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Paula Pintos — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 06:00:00 +0000

In 2016, the Lausanne ornithology club (COL: Cercle Ornithologique de Lausanne) acquired a small cabin facing Île aux Oiseaux (“Bird Island”) at Préverenges, an artificial biotope reclaimed from the lake in 2001 and now classified as an official nature reserve. Its location is connected to the natural estuary of the Venoge, a river that flows into Lake Geneva. This is one of the main stopping places for migratory waders in Switzerland, primarily due to its unique geographic situation in the axis of the Rhône valley. Birds arriving from Africa stop here before moving on to their distant summer quarters in the Arctic tundra.

Pully House / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Paula Pintos — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Located in a residential area close to Lausanne and Lake Geneva, this plot was previously occupied by an urban villa comprising two apartments, which was demolished. This new residential building houses three apartments, including a triplex apartment intended for the owner, thanks to its optimal use of form and building regulation compliance. These regulations specify ceiling heights and permit an attic, interpreted formally here to add a storey and therefore gain additional living space. The rounded form is a reaction to the motley, mediocre context of this residential district on the periphery of Lausanne.

Flon Hotel / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Paula Pintos — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 01:00:00 +0000

Located at the western edge of Lausanne’s central Le Flon district, this hotel building presents a monolithic mineral block that blends with the site’s industrial heritage. Utilising the template provided by the district’s street plan to optimum effect, the design echoes the dense urban grid patterns characteristic of Le Flon’s traditional warehouses and completes the square from which it is accessed. The four façades are uniform in appearance, their repeat motifs created by prefabricated concrete units. The design reflects the individual room modules, creating a continuous pattern of facets and folds across the building’s four sides. At ground level, geometric pillars tapering towards the base balance this massive carapace on more delicate points.

New Apostolic Church / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Paula Pintos — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 13:00:00 +0000

The extension of Lausanne’s New Apostolic Church was designed to draw out the existing building’s intrinsic qualities. We felt it was essential to follow the clear diagonal lines that underpin the organisation of its spaces and circulation flows, and which are its defining features.

Le Vaud Polyvalent Hall / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 06:00:00 +0000

Le Vaud’s new community hall is a multipurpose public infrastructure designed to serve and bring together the entire village community. Hosting sports activities, shows, and community events, it supplements existing school facilities while opening up new possibilities for the village and its surrounding communities. The hall’s entrance is sited very appropriately on the road connecting the village church and the school entrance.

International Motorcycling Federation / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Sabrina Leiva — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 04:00:00 +0000

Elegant and iconic, the new headquarters of the FIM (International Motorcycling Federation) had to wait ten years before taking shape on a site in the outskirts of Geneva where road and railway meet.

Public Pavilion of New Zoological Park La Garenne / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 01:00:00 +0000

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Swiss Embassy / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 11 May 2016 03:00:00 +0000

Until the summer of 2015, the Swiss Confederation was represented in Côte d’Ivoire by an embassy located in Abidjan’s Plateau district, in an upper storey of an office building. And then in 2013 the Office Fédéral des Constructions et de la Logistique (OFCL – Swiss Federal Office for Buildings and Logistics) decided to acquire the former residence of the Norwegian ambassador in the city’s attractive Cocody district, planning to renovate and extend the existing building in order to house its new embassy there.

Steiner School / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 01 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Located in a green belt of Lausanne's western metropolitan area, the school building of Bois-Genoud integrates the Rudolf Steiner pavilion campus.

Rovereaz Housing / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Housing in Chailly / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Javier Gaete — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The building on the avenue du Temple is located alongside of the wooded lanyard which follows the Vuachère River. This peculiar situation, in between urban and natural environments, characterizes the scenery of this four-apartment building.

House for two families in Maracon / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Javier Gaete — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 01:00:00 +0000

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The building is located in the continuity of the existing farms, respecting the morphology and scale of the other constructions in the village. The project is inspired from traditional architectural forms and codes and is reinterpreted to the use of the building and to contemporary esthetics. The form of the building nestles itself in the topography of the ground and inscribes itself in the landscape.

Etable De Stabulation Libre / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Javier Gaete — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

In 2003, two farmers commissioned Localarchitecture to design free-stall barn for 30 cows. The client wanted a contemporary building design that would nevertheless fit within the budget allocated by the federal authorities to this type of construction. Other criteria included the requirement to meet the standards governing organic production. The cowhouse is to be the final part of the infrastructure of the “Cerisier”, a large agricultural estate in the Jura, set at the heart of an idyllic landscape of fields, pastures, forests and mountain valleys. The brief for the design was to minimise earthworks and provide a balance of cuts and fills. It was to be positioned near the existing farm, delineating an external space set aside for the livestock it houses.

Hangar Agricole / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Sebastian Jordana — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The "Cerisier" domain is a large agricultural facility, located at the foot of Mount Chasseral, at an altitude of 1'000 meters.

Confignon House / LOCALARCHITECTURE

Nico Saieh — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Located on an elongated plot, the new dwelling occupies the totality of the constructible area. Benefiting from the mild natural grade of the orchard, the house is formed by three spaces which shift down the land. Each "unit" is a volume which varies in height and which opens sideways towards the garden on both sides.

Temporary chapel for the Deaconesses of St-Loup - Localarchitecture / Danilo Mondada + LOCALARCHITECTURE

Nico Saieh — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In the summer of 2007, Localarchitecture and architect Danilo Mondada were awarded the contract to renovate the mother house of the Deaconess Community of St-Loup. The commission involves the complete renovation of a historic building, including the community's main chapel.