Architects: Markus Wespi Jérôme de Meuron architects
Location: Caviano, Switzerland
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Wespi de Meuron
The house is located in an area of new buildings outside the historical center of Caviano, with a wonderful view on the lake and the mountains.
With its silver-dark-gray color and pure shape the house takes itself inconspicuously back and connects with natural stonewalls of the surroundings rather than with the heterogeneous buildings.
A hillside volume extension embodies the house with the mountain and enables a direct access to the upper house level.
The irregular window setting is melting the floors to a unit without recognizable partitioning.
Large space-strutted panorama openings alternate with small square ventilation windows.
To achieve an optimization of costs, it has been chosen a prefabricated timber construction, a compact volume, simple details and low cost materials.
At the inside the prefabrication is recognizable – the raw wood elements remains visible and are painted with the same silver-dark-gray colour as it was used for the timber facades.
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- first floor plan
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- second floor plan
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- section
Oh… another archdaily logo
ah…another good piece of architecture!!
This is my kind of house, love the simplicity and strict lines.
много подобных проектов…и они вдохновляют)
does anyone know more about the finish to the particle board, is it just sealed and painted or some other treatment? it is a very nice use of a cheap material with fine detail….
detail drawings would be welcome, please post more details and drawings. thanks
this is a bit disturbing… why do we have cloned content on a different blog site? http://urbanpromoter.com/wood-house-in-caviano-wespi-de-meuron/
Good looking piece indeed. But I was badly disappointed by the floor plans. They lack any reason, and are even merely stupid.
Yeah, I guess this is just a fake address, still it would make women happy. The lot is somewhere at the other side of the body of the lake.
this cabin is EM2Ns mountain Chalet painted on silver/grey…………
not liking it!!1
homage a mario bota?
but in wood?
Total lack of humanity. Oh puhleeese – yet another incongruous blockhouse look. A colourless, featureless harsh thing atop the beautiful, warm soft landscape. AND the morose grey interior. How very Swiss. It does not connect with anything except the term eyesore.
While I like the exterior somewhat – The interior of the of this project is nauseating at best….
so many haters
… “haters”? NOT!
That is truth, as is “ugly”!