Château Gütsch - Gütschbahn | Lucerne
Château Gütsch | LucerneContracted study, 1st Prize | 2008
Gütschbahn valley station 2009 - 2015
In collaboration with Architekturbüro Iwan Bühler
Architecture: Daniele Marques & Rainer Schlumpf
Project management: Andy Keller, Dipl. Ing. Arch. Univ.
Kathrin Keller, Dipl. Ing. Arch. Univ.
Photographer: Ruedi Walti, Basel
The project engages with the overlapping and conjunction of three different transport routes at a single point: the Gütschbahn, the Gotthard railway line running above it and Baselstrasse, Lucerne’s main approach road.
From an urban planning perspective, the measure creates an open space at the railway station entrance, forming a covered square along Baselstrasse. The actual area of the station building is framed by bridgeheads, the SBB railway line and an addition in the form of a large shield made of white fair-faced concrete. The shear wall acts as a projection area and assumes the role of a station façade that that refills the space created by demolition measures. The white colour of the concrete structure and the materialisation of the floor, using round cobblestones, refer to the white Château Gütsch and its courtyard.