Professional School, Canton Lucerne CH
open competition (at ahaa) - 4th place
september 2024
The extension of the professional school and gym in Sursee was a large design task that employed three people full time for around eight weeks. The entire extension structure was designed in laminated timber.
We collaborated with Solskin of ETH Zürich to develop an innovative active solar façade for the competition, made of hundreds of autonomously moving solar panels to optimise performance and luminosity of the playing fields.
I was in charge of the design of the school gymnasium (annex), and the development of the façade with Solskin.
The brief called for five playing fields, which are set on top of each other for ground occupancy constraints. The changing rooms are sandwiched between the two and play a structural role as a box-like truss system.