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Holiday House on the Rigi / AFGH

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Houses , Selected , , , ,
 

Architects: AFGH
Location: Scheidegg, Switzerland
Clients: Andreas Fuhrimann, Gabrielle Hächler, Pius Sidler
Wood planner: Peter Camenzind AG, Gersau
Project year: 2002-2003
Construction year: 2003-2004
Area: 242 sqm
Budget: 580,000 CHF (USD$465,000)
Photographs: Valentin Jeck

Holiday house on the Rigi, Scheidegg. The building was arranged on the periphery of the property so that the distance to the neighbouring houses was as large as posssible and so that the option of constructing another building could be left open. The concrete cellar anchors the building in the sloping terrain and houses the entrance area and the technical servicing, on top of which is the wooden volume of the building which appears something like a ship. This floor juts out to a great extent towards the east so that a covered, protected entrance is created.

The concrete chimney of the open fireplace rises like a mast out of the cellar, and together with a concrete wall forms the bracing backbone behind which the two single-flight staircases connect the 3 storeys. On the ground floor is a large living room spread over two different levels and with different ceiling heights.

The deliberately low area containing the kitchen in fact creates a spatial feeling like that generated in the low parlours in mountain huts. The 5-meter long fixed-glazed panorama window, which frames the breathtaking view like a picture, nevertheless introduces a contemporary modernity. The polygonal plan form makes a differentiated spatial division possible and gives the open fireplace its particular status at the widest spot in the room.

 

12 comments »

I’d love to see the images… many of them don’t seem to show up?

 
# June 18, 2008 at 06:42

Peter, i just fixed it. We had a small technical glitch ;)

Enjoy them!

 
# June 18, 2008 at 11:54
Nico Saieh says:

Now it works!

 
# July 3, 2008 at 11:06

Well the thumbnails work at least ;-)

 
# July 3, 2008 at 11:17
sophie* says:

no, images still don’t work (at least the ones i clicked on like ’scan 11′ for ex)

 
# January 29, 2009 at 05:36

I will re upload this photos today

 
# January 29, 2009 at 10:38
dp says:

linda obra!

 
# May 8, 2009 at 21:25
2MACoff says:

О ОПЯТЬ ЗИМА …

 
# May 28, 2009 at 14:33

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