Architectural Competition | Community Center | Innertkirchen | Gramazio Kohler

The new Innertkirchen community center presents itself as an incisive, crystalline volume that offers a contemporary interpretation on wooden shingle cladding. Thanks to its crystalline form, it is both apparent and well integrated into the landscape and existing place, marking the center of the town.

The two-story building is spatially organized around a central circulation core. The principal rooms, the info center and its foyer, the grocery store, and the multimedia room on the first floor, occupy the three corners of the building. The sloping roof of the crystalline form is spatially activated by precisely positioned sky lights that frame views of the three surrounding mountain peaks.......more