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Küng Office Building / Seilerlinhart

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

For about ten years now, Stephan Küng, head of Küng Holzbau (Küng Timber Constructions) in the second generation, has put a lot of effort into solid wood construction. "Holzpur" (Pure Wood) is the name of the system that Küng has established on the market. The basic elements of "Holzpur" are solid, about 20 cm thick wall parts consisting of seven layers of boards. The boards themselves are made out of "moon wood", which is usually cut around Christmas time before the new moon, when there is almost no water left in the trees. This results in less shrinkage and a smaller risk of infestation with wood pests. This is what the company is convinced about and they find more and more customers who don't want a usual frame construction with boards and adhesives, but nothing else than wood. Pure wood. The recently finished headquarters building of the company itself in a small industrial zone near Alpnach, where Küng Timber Construction has been rooted since its beginning, not just solves a spatial problem, but also works as a demonstration object, business card, and a 1:1 scaled billboard for this solid wood construction. The building has been designed by Seiler Linhart architects, an office situated in Lucerne and Sarnen, that has been working intensively with Küng since the year 2009.

OKB Headquarters / Seilerlinhart

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 06:00:00 +0000

The area north of the village centre of Sarnen, between the Feld industrial estate, the Bünten residential district, and Sarnen Nord railway station, is to be developed into a new, lively working and residential district in the coming years. The new Obwaldner Kantonalbank building marks the beginning of this long-term residential development in Sarnen North. This first building is located at the interface between Kägiswilerstrasse and the new neighbourhood street 'Im Feld', at the transition between the small-scale, green residential area and the large-scale commercial and service buildings. In the near future, further buildings are to follow on the Obwaldner Kantonalbank site and, together with the head office, form an ensemble with attractive working, living, and open spaces. From the outside, the new bank building appears as a strong, sculptural structure. The facade, a finely structured dark wood panelling and a robust concrete base on the ground floor, is intended to be an expression of stability, regionality, and diversity.

Spalihof Houses / Seilerlinhart

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000

The «Spalihof» project, which consists of three new buildings and the refurbishment of the historic Spalihaus (1463), deals with issues that are exemplary for any village densification. Densification in the countryside must solve the dilemma of accommodating larger building volumes in a small-scale context.

House K / Seilerlinhart

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 03:00:00 +0000

At the southwestern tip of Lake Lucerne, at the foot of Pilatus, nestled in a wooded mountain landscape, lies the Obwaldner community Alpnach. The Küng family, which runs the third-generation local timber construction company of the same name, built their own, innovative residential building there. Consciously, the building seeks to be close to the traditional Obwalden wooden buildings on an architectural as well as a constructive level but continues to develop these in the sense of a contemporary identity. In this way, individual motifs and moods are taken out of context and condensed into a new, independent expression.