Apartment Buildings, Eggen

Lucerne, Switzerland 2018–present (under construction)

Client: Allreal Generalunternehmung AG Competition, first prize

The buildings of the Eggenhof farmstead on the outskirts of Lucerne, represent the agricultural history of the place, where the scale of buildings and fields were determined by the families that worked the land. Adjacent modernist housing developments, meanwhile, adhere to the rules of solar orientation and have an abstract relationship to the land. Caruso St John’s project seeks to protect the quality of the Eggenhof and exploit the qualities of the site, putting in place a spatial structure that resists the tendency for places such as this to become absorbed into the urban agglomeration.

Under construction

Selecting trees for the apartments in Eggen

Lucerne, Switzerland

For one of the buildings in Eggen, Lucerne, a tree trunk will be used to mark the two-storey passage through the centre of the Z-shaped building as load-bearing columns. Two Atlas cedars were selected, which were felled in the winter of 2023/24 in a forest near Figeac, France. The trees were approximately 120 years old.

Project: Apartment Buildings, Eggen

Planning permission

Apartment Buildings, Eggen

Luzern, Switzerland

Planning permission has been granted for the construction of two timber-framed apartment blocks on the outskirts of Lucerne.

Project: Apartment Buildings, Eggen

Location
Lucerne, Switzerland

Date
2018–present

Client
Allreal Generalunternehmung AG

Area
17,388 m²

Status
Competition, first prize

Caruso St John Architects
Adam Caruso, Peter St John, Florian Zierer

Project architect
Constanze Becker (2023-present), Christof Bedall (2023-present), Fatma Ben Amor (2018–2020), Ferdinand Schmidt (2021–2022)

Project team
Virginia Boldrini, Nils Boxler, Gabriel Bütler, Aleksandra Cvetkovska, Franck Ducotterd, Federico Farinatti, Alicia Hildbrand, Paula Holtmann, Saori Katsube, Megu Marumoto, Lucien Roy, Jasmin Schiele, Alex Schwitter, Zeno Zeiter

Landscape architects
Ghiggi Paesaggi Landschaft und Städtebau GmbH

Structural engineer
Ferrari Gartmann AG (competition)
Jäger Partner AG

Services engineer
PZM Luzern AG

Electrical Engineer
PZM Luzern AG

Building Physics
Lemon Consult AG

Main contractor
Allreal Generalunternehmung AG

Visualisations
Nora Walter