ENET HOUSE
Gole Gmbh
ARCHITECTS
Gole Gmbh
LEAD ARCHITECTS
Igor Gole
LOCATION
Lucerna, Switzerland
CATEGORY
Mixed Use Architecture, Residential Architecture, Offices
Text description provided by architect.
The residential and business ensemble on Ennetweg in Lucerne - or: a little history of transparent architecture.
There is architecture - and there is transparent architecture. Transparent not only in the sense of constructively obvious or ideally self-explanatory; but also in the sense of effectively transparent: glass fronts, glass shelves, glass furniture.
The idea is not new, on the contrary: it is 2000 years old. However, it only became popular in 1851 with the establishment of the "Crystal Palace" in London.
Here, we modernized a house from 1943. The spacious garden on the plot could be used for an additional new building on one's own.
The result is a four-part residential and office ensemble. A place for creative people: it was built, following the Japanese example, in a small space that thrives to reach heights.
A window front as high as a house casts light at your discretion.
The floors are not continuous and thus create an unusual openness over the entire height of the building.
Every centimeter is used: the stairwell is also a shelf, the wall also a cupboard, the exposed concrete is optionally a floor, bench or shower tray.
And everywhere in between: glass, glass, glass.
Glass intermediate floors, glass room walls, even a glass bathroom - arranged so that the neighbors cannot see it.
Those who want to be on the side of progress today must judge this consequence as consistent: the built transparency is only an image of the digital permeability that has already been created.
A 2000 year old idea, implemented for the 21st century: Welcome to the glass house.