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WOHNEN • LIVING INNERE WERTE • INNER VALUES

Blick vom Essbereich ins Atelier • View from the dining area into the studio

Das Kreismotiv bestimmt die Form der Duschzelle. • The circle motif determines the form of the shower cubicle. Raummöbel zonieren Nutzungsbereiche und Nischen. • Space-defining furniture for usage areas and niches.

L ilitt Bollinger is among those young Swiss female architects whose first conver- half of the building has a filigree, widely spanned wooden roof which – once exposed
– turned out to be a treasure and slowed down the architects’ original intention of
sion projects immediately gained the attention of the experts. Her designs are lo-
cated at the interface of architecture, product and craft and sound out the field bet- an intensely colourful design.
ween the already existing and the potentials of a place. Her biography is as unusual
as her buildings: After studying to be a teacher of fine arts, teaching and working in Precise details contrast rough material
her own design manufacture, she studied architecture at ETH Zurich and set up her
own office Lilitt Bollinger Studio GmbH in 2013. For her first conversion project, she A massive concrete wall on the ground floor separates the warehouse into two zones.
took experienced planning partners on board and, in compensation, worked as a Bollinger and Buchner wanted to make it possible to experience these zones as se-
carpenter on the installations. Her companion Daniel Buchner is a successful co- parate halls and, at the same time, to connect them. The old cherry collection point
owner of Buchner Bründler Architekten and ahead of her by almost 20 years when was preserved as a workshop and a garage and a study added above it. The location
it comes to the experience in planning. In 2016, Bollinger and Buchner bought the of the former shop and its façade opening were ideal for a studio. Since the ware-
former warehouse in the centre of Nuglar-St. Pantaleon and only later discovered its house originally opened up to the village and the new use as a living space required
significance for the village. In 1936, a residential building had been converted into additional light, the architects decided to have six large-format openings cut into the
the Urs Saladin schnapps distillery and extended with a large warehouse and a sales structure of the concrete façade towards the east. Because the existing windows
room in 1968. At the beginning of the 1970s, there were still 10,750 cherry trees in there had a parapet height of 2.50 cm, all the window parapets were lowered to the
the village of about 800 inhabitants. The building served as the collection point for height of a seating bench. On the outside, a continuous window casing made of steel
all the picked cherries. In a shop oriented towards the street, schnapps, wine and sits in front of these cut-out openings. Thanks to this intervention in favour of a very
everyday necessities were sold. Thus almost all the village inhabitants were in some long, narrow room for the kitchen and the living area, the topographic location of
way connected with this building. The company, however, got into financial distress the village, the building on a slope as well as an overwhelming view can now be di-
and, for the last 20 years, the building had been vacant. The conversion affected the rectly enjoyed. Several circular openings were cut into the ceiling to admit light
whole village and collective memories were awakened. The architects were told through dome windows. The motif of the circular holes also appears as an opening
many stories and the interest in the conversion process was much stronger than ex- in the concrete wall which connects the former kirsch warehouse and today’s garage
pected. During the analysis of the building stock, Bollinger and Buchner learnt that with the living area. Some of the interior walls were removed or given further ope-
their assumption that it was a straight concrete construction was wrong and that one nings. In summer, these openings remain open and a large, meandering open space

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