Fuchsegg Lodge Hotel

Fuchsegg Lodge Hotel
© G.Standl

FUCHSEGG LODGE HOTEL

Ludescher + Lutz Architekten

GEOLOGY CONSULTANT
3P Geotechnik

STATICS
Mader & Flatz

BUILDING PHYSICS
Günter Meusburger

TRAFFIC PLANNING
Rudhart & Gasser

ARCHITECT
Elmar Ludescher, Philip Lutz

PHOTOGRAPHS
E. Ludescher, G.Standl, Studio Wälder

AREA
9846 m²

YEAR
2020

LOCATION
Austria

CATEGORY
Hotels, Restaurant

Text description provided by architect.

What dimensions should one use for a hotel in a remote landscape?

Fuchsegg Lodge Hotel
© G.Standl
Fuchsegg Lodge Hotel
© G.Standl

Architects have already found many answers to this question. You can use the spatial programme to create a monumental object, a grand hotel with the mountains as a backdrop as was the case in many places during the Belle Époque.

One could also design a subterranean building or try and make it invisible in some way.

Fuchsegg Lodge Hotel
© E. Ludescher
Fuchsegg Lodge Hotel
© E. Ludescher

Perhaps one would come up with this idea today because of the advancing urban sprawl.

We have chosen a third approach to find an appropriate form: We investigate which settlement forms can already be found in the surrounding cultural landscape.

Fuchsegg Lodge Hotel
© Studio Wälder
Fuchsegg Lodge Hotel
© Studio Wälder

And we found what we were looking for: the existing Vorsäss Eggatsberg can be admired at a distance of about 1,000 metres.

What is a “Vorsäss”? The term originates from the Alemannic Alpine region and refers to a settlement inhabited only in summer, consisting of simple farmhouses with stables, forming a loose settlement without the pretense of being a village.

Fuchsegg Lodge Hotel
© Studio Wälder
Fuchsegg Lodge Hotel
© Studio Wälder

The buildings are similar to each other, they are oriented according to the topography, they do not form streets and they do not have fences.


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