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A prefabricated timber structure for Pfadi St. Martin

St. Gallen, CH

General view of the St Martin scout hostel

Clubhouse with simple timber architecture

The new building, consisting of prefabricated timber elements, has been optimally designed for the many uses of the Scout Hall. Blumer Lehmann produced the timber elements and was responsible for the entire timber construction.

The new Scout Hall was built in a clear architectural style and with the scouts themselves contributing plenty of their own labour. The upper of the two floors houses five spacious group rooms with storage areas. The building is subdivided for its different uses. Across one third of the building footprint, a two-storey hall for 60 people with kitchen and toilets is available for the public to hire. The remaining two thirds are filled with parish rooms for youth work, a group room, storage space and further public sanitary facilities, which can be accessed from the outside.

The building with a rough-sawn facade and spruce formwork stands on a foundation and ground slab of reinforced concrete. The walls and the monopitch roof were executed as a timber frame construction, while the ceiling consists of visible ribbed slabs.

The facade work and the interior finishing, such as the wall panelling with three-ply panels with acoustic perforations, were implemented by members of Pfadi St. Martin under the leadership of architect Marc Stauffacher.

Markus Rutz

Division Manager Timber and Modular Construction | CH
Member of the Executive Board

+41 71 388 58 40
markus.rutz@blumer-lehmann.com

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Project details

Client:: Pfadi St. Martin
Architecture:: Gemperli Stauffacher Architektur GmbH
Project type:: Office and administration
Construction type:: Wood element construction
Services:: Timber construction
Own products:: Fassaden
Construction:: 2023
Locality:: St. Gallen
Country:: Switzerland

View into the large hall of the new building

A hall for public hire with space for 60 people as well as a kitchen and toilets take up a third of the floor space and two storeys.

Detailed view of a group room in the new scout centre

The combination of modern timber construction and traditional materials has resulted in an attractive scout centre.

Side view of the new St Martin scout centre

The members of St Martin's Scouts carried out the façade work and interior work, including the wall panelling with three-layer panels with acoustic perforations, themselves.