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Gymnasium
Thun, Switzerland
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Other Projects by COMAMALA ISMAIL
Gymnasium
Thun, Switzerland
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
The extension for the Gymnasium Thun for visual arts is significant for the office. It is the first to be realised in a wooden load-bearing structure. The use of the material is given special attention because the characteristics of wood will be put at the service of architecture, affirming the will that architecture is construction and joining.
The plan is ‘modern’ in the sense of its order and geometry, but especially in the clear reading of the structural elements dissociated from the non-structural elements. Especially on the upper level, where a colossal wooden trussed beam supports almost the entire building, leaving free a large sports hall on the ground floor, as well as other large rooms. Probably this concept is a celebration of technology. This project reflects the office’s preoccupation with engineering issues.
The section of the building is important because a large part of the programme is underground. This allows a controlled scale and gives the building a pavilion-like character. The basement is a closed world reserved for the intimacy of the changing rooms. The sports hall is a waterfall of zenithally light, full of life.
The construction is dry. The game of joining the pieces of this giant jigsaw requires systematising, rationalising, repeating, modulating the project development strategies.
The plan is ‘modern’ in the sense of its order and geometry, but especially in the clear reading of the structural elements dissociated from the non-structural elements. Especially on the upper level, where a colossal wooden trussed beam supports almost the entire building, leaving free a large sports hall on the ground floor, as well as other large rooms. Probably this concept is a celebration of technology. This project reflects the office’s preoccupation with engineering issues.
The section of the building is important because a large part of the programme is underground. This allows a controlled scale and gives the building a pavilion-like character. The basement is a closed world reserved for the intimacy of the changing rooms. The sports hall is a waterfall of zenithally light, full of life.
The construction is dry. The game of joining the pieces of this giant jigsaw requires systematising, rationalising, repeating, modulating the project development strategies.
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