Nikki Reed Instagram – My happy place is listening to the sound of cows grazing in a valley of lush green. Lucerne is so stunning. We stayed at the @burgenstockresort , a hotel village that is 150 years old consisting of 30 buildings that are all an architectural masterpiece, designed with nature top of mind. We took a boat, two trains and one funicular all in one day, and then jumped back into the city to visit the beautiful Kulturhof Hinter Musegg- a little green oasis in the middle of the city that is a non-profit farm focusing on sustainability, cultivated since the Middle Ages. We drank hot cocoa and visited the little farm shop, walked through a grassy field to get to their highland cows, perfectly juxtaposed with buildings just behind them. Wild to think all of this exists right there in the city.
Our building at the @burgenstockresort is known as the Forest hotel, appropriately named for it’s place among the trees, built by an architect named Matteo Thun who works with natural materials like stone and woods sourced locally from the surrounding mountains. The vision was to create a setting that felt like the hotel was the stage and the valley was the audience. The walls of the hotel are made of gabions to reduce chemical exposure and also for the insects to be able to live freely, while the water from the lake is used for the spa, the pools and the gardening. Going through a turbin system, it is also used for electricity that provides power to the whole resort, and used in the pipe system to provide cooling and heating. The green valley below the hotel is just one of the many surrounding farms where the food is locally sourced for the 7 restaurants in the hotel village. What an incredible display of working with the elements to create sustainable beauty🌱🫶🏼 | Posted on 01/Jul/2024 21:41:25
