On the industrial site of the former monofilament manufacturer Viscosuisse and today?s Monosuisse AG in Emmenbru?cke, a new urban district, to be known as the Viscosistadt, will be developed in the near future. While preserving the diversity of the existing buildings, the urban quality of the site will be further strengthened and developed. The first measure is the conversion of Building 745 into the new location for the Lucerne School of Art and Design. Part of the Viscosuisse legacy, this strongly expressive building shapes the character of the site. The structure has wide spans and is made up of columns, down-beams and prefabricated ribbed concrete ceiling slabs, producing generously sized, uninterrupted spaces. In order to preserve the quality of this fine example of Swiss engineering architecture and to make it usable, our intervention is as direct and restrained as possible.
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Architects: EM2N

Location: 6020 Emmen, Switzerland

Area: 13000.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Filip Dujardin

Client: Viscosistadt AG

Partners: Mathias Mu?ller, Daniel Niggli

Project Leader: Christoph Aba?cherli, Bernd Druffel (Associate), Marc Holle (Associate)

Project Team: Dorothee Burkert, Niklas Erlewein, Margarida Fonseca, Giulia Giardini, Olivia Kossak, Ana Olalquiaga Cubillo, Gabriela Popa, Claudia Soppelsa-Peter,Jonas Rindlisbacher

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