16/01/2021
Location: Kl**en, Switzerland
Program: Competition Entry for mixed-use building: office, brand space, medical clinics, education facilities, hotel, spa, gym, restaurants, cafes.
Date: 2009
The fluid shapes of the building respond to two conditions. There is the compact and continuous adjacency to the airport on one side and a convex and eroded condition on the other side in order to maximise the perimeter, to embrace nature and to take maximum advantage of views.
The building’s “interior urbanism” encourages interaction amongst different programmatic modules and sharing of facilities open to the public, whilst maintaining a practical vertical stacking for each module, aimed at rationalizing services and circulation.
Critical importance has been assigned to clarity of access and to the relation of entry to both horizontal and vertical circulation within the complex.
These will be related to three major voids or “canyons” cutting through the building section and merging in an open plan top floor.
These “canyons” cover three critically important functions: to indicate major points of entry into the complex, to reinforce the major circulation routes (both horizontal and vertical) and to create a variety of depths of floor plate appropriate to the mix of uses to be accommodated.
Researched by Alessandra Gargiulo