New Residential Building Wesemlin Monastery, Lucerne
1st prize in competition
houses freely divisible areas for commercial or service use. The basement contains the underground parking garage as well as storage and technical rooms.
The ceilings above the first basement level and the ground floor are constructed as cast-in-place concrete slabs and function as transfer slabs, with the ceiling above the basement being partially prestressed. The ceilings of the upper floors are constructed using timber-concrete composite construction with exposed timber soffits. The roof consists of a pure timber construction. The central concrete core and the connected concrete walls provide horizontal stabilization of the building against wind and earthquakes.
The external exposed timber frame construction supports the loads from the balconies and transfers them to the basement ceiling. The frame consisting of glued laminated timber columns and beams is connected via steel components. The floor structure of the balconies consists of cross-laminated timber panels on which waterproofing is applied, and a timber grating with substructure.
The building is founded on shallow foundations on the highly load-bearing rock substrate.