Indermühle Bauingenieure from the Swiss town of Thun was responsible for the timber engineering during the project phase, including from the preliminary project to the supervision of the final design. The firm also completed the 3D project planning on behalf of the timber construction company. The RFEM program was used for the structural analysis.
Structure
The additional floor consists of floor-to-ceiling trusses in the longitudinal and transverse directions. The truss diagonals are glued-laminated timber, while the chords are steel. The chords are integrated in the timber-concrete composite floors.
The diagonals are connected with dowels and internal steel plates. The second floor cantilevers are 3 m (10 ft) in the longitudinal direction and 4 m (13 ft) in the transverse direction over the first floor.
The visible timber structure, as well as the glazed exterior and interior walls, create an intimate, open atmosphere.
| Client | Municipality of Sutz-Lattrigen, Switzerland |
| Architect | Bauzeit Architekten, Biel, Switzerland www.bauzeit.com Lanz Architekten, Sutz-Lattrigen, Switzerland www.lanzarchitekten.ch |
| Timber Engineering | Indermühle Bauingenieure, Thun, Switzerland |
| Civil Engineering of Reinforced Concrete | Emch + Berger AG, Bern, Switzerland |
| Timber Construction Company | Wenger Holzbau AG, Steffisburg, Switzerland |
