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Clubhaus Golfparkn Nuolen
Clubhouse at a Golf Course
Nuolen, Switzerland
2012
Status: invited competition
Client: KIBAG Management AG, Zürich
Engineer: Conzett, Bronzini, Gartmann
Sustainability specialist: Transsolar
Collaborators: Sebastian Bietenhader
The building has two floors coexisting independently and linked by a small stair. The lower space is a precise circle with a diameter of 40 meters. On one side it fragments and opens along the slope. The incoming sunlight contrasts with the dark space. The upper space is easy to understand conceptually but spatially hard to depict. The main space is curved in plan and the ceiling is also curved. The plan and the section are easy to read on their own, but the resulting space is almost impossible to construct in your head. The reading of the built space will constantly oscillate between the memory of the plan and section and the appearance of it in reality. Frank Gehry makes spaces that are so complicated that you can’t understand them. The geometries are too complex. In the golf club design the spatial complexity is just on border. By understanding the plan and section you will also understand what you see.