Railwaystation Prilly-Malley

Firm LocationLausanne, Switzerland
Project locationLausanne Switzerland
CompanyLuscher Architectes SA
Lead ArchitectRodolphe Luscher

The concept emerges from the landscape, from the morphology of the embankments so characteristic of the railway landscape. The railway station is inscribed as an interference in this linear landscape. This principle of triangulation contaminates the protective envelope which, through its aerodynamic aesthetics, constitutes the first signalling sequence: this is not a building, nor a façade, but a deflector. The fusion of the embankment and the envelope, in a unique dynamic, generates a precise insertion of this landscape, infrastructural, signalling object...