Vedeggio-Cassarate Gallery, Lugano tunnel

Vedeggio-Cassarate Gallery - Lugano Building

Tunnels are “wounds” inflicted on geology to facilitate human movements. Their history is ancient, glorious and gory, but today techniques have been refined to the point of making the excavation similar to endoscopic surgery.

EPFL Pavilions Lausanne: Place Cosandey

EPFL Pavilions: Place Cosandey

The first stage of the EPFL campus was organized by a potentially infinite spacial and functional grid. But what was meant to be a highly flexible and open scheme turned out to be highly problematic, resulting in mainly backside situations.

Sports Hall School Apples, Swiss Building

Sports Hall Apples, Swiss Sports Building, Secondary School

The village of Apples is located at the foot of the Jura mountains, north of the city of Morges. To address today’s strong population growth in the region, a dozen municipalities joined forces to build a new school complex.

Sports Hall in Villaz-Saint-Pierre, Building

Sports Hall in Villaz-Saint-Pierre, Swiss Sports Building

The village of Villaz-Saint-Pierre is built on a hilltop facing the Plateau and the Fribourg Alps. The new multipurpose sports hall is located below the church and the village square.

Locarno Apartments, Swiss Residential Building

Locarno Apartments, Swiss Residential Building

A Swiss congregation commissioned Dutch-based practice Serge Schoemaker Architects to design a plan for the conversion of the prominently located ‘Villa Erica’ boarding school in Locarno.