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Entwurf • Design Lukas Imhof Architektur, CH-Zürich
Bauherr • Client Ekkharthof Verein, CH-Lengwil
Standort • Location Rütelistraße 2, CH-Lengwil
Nutzfläche • Floor space 2.780 m 2
Fotos • Photos Lucas Peters (1–3), Hannes Heinzer (4–5)
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More infos on page 128
EKKHARTHOF SCHOOL
IN LENGWIL
„Im besten Fall vermengen sich das Bestehende Lukas Imhof is a representative of the “old/new archi-
tecture” as his teacher, friend and mentor Miroslav Šik
und das Ergänzende zu etwas Neuem.“ established it with his teachings at the ETH Zurich. The
concept is a kind of architecture which does not see
Lukas Imhof the old and the new as antagonistic forces but is loo-
king for a synthesis. Imhof recently showed how this
can succeed with the extension of a school building.
T he Ekkharthof in the Swiss community of Lengwil on Lake Con-
stance is a sanatorium and an educational facility according to the
anthroposophical guidelines for about 200 children, adolescents and
adults with mental disabilities. The facility was constructed in the
1970s according to plans by the architect Rex Raab (1914-2004), who is
a leading representative of anthroposophical architecture in the Ger-
man-speaking area. Born in Great Britain, Raab studied architecture in
London in the late 1930s. He was later trained as a handicraft instruc-
tor at the Goetheanum in Dornach and worked for several years as a
teacher at the first Waldorfschule in Stuttgart founded by Rudolf Stei-
ner before, in 1954, Raab became self-employed as an architect in
Remstal. Subsequently, he realized numerous, pioneering anthroposo-
phical institutions in Germany and in Switzerland. For Lengwil, Raab
Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Ground floor plan Grundriss Obergeschoss • Upper floor plan designed an introvert ensemble arranged around an oval courtyard. It
includes a central administration building with an adjacent festival
hall, a school building, residences as well as various buildings for
workshops. during the latest refurbishment- and extension works at
the Ekkharthof managed by the Zurich architect Lukas Imhof, the
school building was also fundamentally revised and complemented
with a sports hall as well as additional rooms for the administration
and meetings. For this, Imhof and his team added a third wing to the
Schnitt • Section school planned by Raab as a two-winged building. This third wing con-
tains the sports hall whereas the requested additional rooms are now
under the new common roof. At the intersection of the old and the new
building, the architects designed a new, identity-creating foyer. The
walls of the three-level volume with a pentagonal layout are plastered
with coloured stucco veneziano. The colour spectrum ranges from ear-
thy shades of red in the lower to cold sky-blue tones in the upper part.
Then there is intensive zenithal lighting which increases the expressio-
nist appearance of the room and its colouring. Without subordinating
themselves to the vocabulary of the building stock, the architects com-
Grundriss Dachgeschoss • Attic floor plan Farbschema Eingangshalle • Color scheme entrance hall bined the old and the new into a natural-looking whole.
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