Apartment Lucerne

Lucerne, Switzerland

Living room with elm panelling and exposed concrete wall

Photo © Basile Bornand

Elm panelling with view into the custom-built kitchen

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Elm panelling with niche and anhydrite floor

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Living room with elm panelling and niche and anhydrite floor

Photo © Basile Bornand

View of guest bathroom painted in Bone China Blue

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Study with cabinet frontage and sliding doors

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Study with cabinet frontage and sliding doors

Photo © Basile Bornand

Master ensuite with Vola fixtures in black and Winckelmans tiles

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Master bedroom with view to the anhydrite-surface stairs to the upper floor

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Hallway, wall unit with view into children’s room in Light Peachblossom

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Children’s room painted in Light Peachblossom

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Bathroom with Vola fixtures in black and Winckelmans tiles in Super Blanc

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Children’s room painted in Rolling Fog with a view of the balcony

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TV room upstairs with anhydrite floor

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TV room upstairs with view of the balcony

TV room view from the balcony

Conversions + Extensions

Interior Designers: Architekturbüro Herbert Bruhin

Location: Haldenrain, Lucerne, Switzerland
Year: 2019
Lighting Design: Lichtteam
Construction Management: Pedrin Helfenstein, Schärli Architekten

Interior Design and new layout concept of two combined apartments
The use of materials such as concrete and elm veneer enables the fusion of two apartments on different floors into a single complete and atmospheric apartment. The layout concept envisions a new connecting staircase. The concrete wall of the living room gives way to a single flight of stairs to the top floor and forms a unifying feature up to the pony wall. The heart and backbone of the lower floor is a built-in unit in elm veneer. It spans across the entire length of the space and forms the kitchen, cabinet frontage and wall panelling in one. Beyond the wood panelling, the subtle English tones in the rooms provide a balancing contrast to the cast materials of the exposed concrete walls and anhydrite floor.