L House / Philippe Stuebi

Sep 2010

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Architect: Philippe Stuebi
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Project Team: Markus Schietsch, Sven Bestenheider, Christine Heimgartner, Philippe Stuebi
Budget: US$ 1.9M
Project Year: 2005
Photographs: Dominique Marc Wehrli

ground floor plan

first floor plan

second floor plan

The expressive volumetry emerged thanks to the special form of the plot and the requirement of the constructor to place a maximal volume on the plot. With the method of the hollowing out the room program and the sculptural building body became incorporated. The sketch development was a work of lining up the demanded areas to a movement going through the house: stretch, widths, narrowing, grinding out from mass to a coherent sequence of space according to the principle of the enfilade.

Each area remains its completely specific character in size and form (conical entry area with clothes and guest wc.,large cubic double-story entrance hall, triangular loggia as color area, double-story inside rounded library which is downstairs three sided glazed, etc.) so that when entering the house various and surprising, only in moving itself the opening space experiences occur. The basement consists of large washing concrete elements (white carrara marble ball with white cement) which are interupted by space-high glazings. The three-sided glazing of the library in the basement ist reflected. Depending upon time of day and lighting conditions you can see the stored books or the reflected garden. The upper floors are implemented in bright lime finish and the glazings in nature-anodized aluminium.

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: © Dominique Marc Wehrli

: situation plan

: ground floor plan

: first floor plan

: second floor plan

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* Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.

Cite:
Saieh , Nico . "L House / Philippe Stuebi" 29 Sep 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 26 May 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/79549>

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lex says:

i like it a lot! good volume. good spaces
Not a big fan of the pink though…
what a bizar combination with the marble floor
ps: stuebi, there is something wrong with your website! :)

# September 30, 2010 at 04:36

up_today_arch says:

I’m not fill entier design system for this house… Few parts are very nice…

# September 30, 2010 at 06:11

PatrickLBC says:

Pink isn’t my favorite color either, but it works well as a punch of color in an otherwise neutral house. It also relates to the pink flowers on the tree in the yard.

In general I like this project, it is unique and full of character.

# September 30, 2010 at 13:39

aLexaT says: