GIOVANNI CONCA ARCHITECT




serge grard bureau d'architecture
Amavita
Le Landeron (NE), Switzerland
​constructed
EQUIPE
Giovanni Conca (project manager)
WHAT
Commercial and housing
Area: 1’200 m2
Volume SIA 416: 3’370m3
CUSTOMER
FYJIS SA
WHEN
2019-2022
The new building, located in the municipality of Le Landeron (NE), replaces an earlier construction and comprises an underground car park, a pharmacy, and five apartments on the first and second floors. The property's particular narrowness and depth posed a number of constraints on the project: the building is 33 metres long and 8.80 metres deep. Building regulations required the top floor to be set back on the south, east and west sides, reducing the depth to just 5.7 metres and resulting in the interior spaces of the apartments being arranged sequentially. The relatively low building indices also resulted in the volume being 'sculpted' with the voids of the terraces and balconies.
For budgetary reasons, the project
was modified during the executive phase, significantly altering the planned facade's image and materiality.