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Category 1: Buildings
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Owner
Grand’Rive Lac SA
Architect
Pierre Steiner Architectes SA
General Contractor
Induni & Cie SA
Engineering Office
Alberti Ingénieurs SA
Construction Period 2013 - 2017
This project is about the enhancement of the industrial site of Corniche in
Lutry by Grand’Rive Immobilien AG: dismantling of the existing buildings
and construction of a new complex with apartments in the upper floors,
commercial or industrial areas on the ground floor and a spacious parking
space in the basement.
The site is ideally placed at the entrance of Lausanne, Vaud capital, and
directly adjacent to the Lavaux site that is included on the UNESCO’s
world heritage list.
From the civil engineering point of view, the greatest challenge was the
nature of the terrain: very heterogeneous and rather poor quality of the
layers. Various studies have been conducted to determine the concept of
foundation but also the type of excavation walls. Everything has become
more difficult due to the presence of water. The second major problem
was the architectural concept that places the housing storey without direct
vertical connection to the bearing elements of the industry-trading ground
floor. A distribution slab had to be foreseen to transfer the forces between
the different levels. However, the structure is fairly simple with a skeleton
made of cast in place slabs, columns and reinforced concrete walls. The
foundation is made as a general slab with local thickenings.
Contact
Julien Genton
Address Avenue Eugène-Rambert 1
1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
Website
The engineering office was founded in 1959 by Justin and Jacques Alberti.
Patrick Alberti joined the family company in 1987 and is managing it since
2003. The company is ISO 9001 certified since 2000.
The Alberti Ingenieurs SA team (engineers, technicians, draftsmen,
accountant and secretary) shows for decades its ability to realise any
type of construction project from simple to the most complex ones,
being continuously listening to their clients, searching for efficiency and
rationality and respecting environmental criteria such as sustainability.
Alberti Ingénieurs SA
‘Petite Corniche’ - Lutry, Switzerland
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Steiner Architectes SA
