- Area: 1553 m²
- Year: 2018
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Photographs:Adam Letch
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Manufacturers: Focus, Lumion, B&B Italia, Caesarstone, Minotti, OKHA, Paola Lenti, Revit
Text description provided by the architects. This family home and office on the banks of Lake Geneva, with architecture by SAOTA and interiors by ARRCC, was designed for a successful Senegalese businessman based in Switzerland. The home draws on the owner’s heritage to advance an emerging African‐inspired aesthetic in its sculptural form, materiality, and textural quality. The triangular shape of the dramatically located lakeside site, in addition to strict planning parameters and prohibitions, imposed considerable restrictions on the design. The response was to carve architectural forms from the triangular footprint of the site and to create a ‘reductive’ sculptural design of round‐edged cubes and triangular masses.
