Wood house in Caviano / Wespi de Meuron

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Architects: Markus Wespi Jérôme de Meuron architects
Location: Caviano,
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 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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YS says:

Oh… another archdaily logo

 
# February 15, 2009 at 00:47
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christos says:

ah…another good piece of architecture!!

 
# February 15, 2009 at 03:56
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Erling says:

This is my kind of house, love the simplicity and strict lines.

 
# February 15, 2009 at 05:20
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ящик says:

много подобных проектов…и они вдохновляют)

 
# February 15, 2009 at 06:22
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roadkill says:

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

 
# February 15, 2009 at 06:44
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roadkill says:

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/

 
# February 15, 2009 at 06:55
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Zahari says:

Good looking piece indeed. But I was badly disappointed by the floor plans. They lack any reason, and are even merely stupid.

 
# February 15, 2009 at 07:57
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M says:

this cabin is EM2Ns mountain Chalet painted on silver/grey…………
not liking it!!1

 
# February 15, 2009 at 11:15
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gerson says:

homage a mario bota?
but in wood?

 
# February 15, 2009 at 14:24
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rebourne says:

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.

 
# February 15, 2009 at 21:24
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eric says:

While I like the exterior somewhat – The interior of the of this project is nauseating at best….

 
# February 16, 2009 at 11:24
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shav says:

so many haters

 
# February 17, 2009 at 03:12
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rebourne says:

… “haters”? NOT!

That is truth, as is “ugly”!

 
# February 18, 2009 at 10:30
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