Fuchsegg Lodge Hotel Design Inspired By Vorsäss In A Remote Landscape _ Ludescher + Lutz Architekten

Updated: Sep 8, 2021

What dimensions should one use for a hotel in a remote landscape?

Architects have already found many answers to this question.

You can use the spatial program to create a monumental object, a grand hotel with the mountains as a backdrop as was the case in many places during the Belle Époque.

One could also design a subterranean building or try and make it invisible in some way.

Perhaps one would come up with this idea today because of the advancing urban sprawl.

We have chosen a third approach to find an appropriate form:

We investigate which settlement forms can already be found in the surrounding cultural landscape.

And we found what we were looking for:

the existing Vorsäss Eggatsberg can be admired at a distance of about 1,000 meters.

What is a “Vorsäss”?

The term originates from the Alemannic Alpine region and refers to a settlement inhabited only in summer, consisting of simple farmhouses with stables, forming a loose settlement without the pretense of being a village.

The buildings are similar to each other, they are oriented according to the topography, they do not form streets and they do not have fences.