ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/155382/shelter-in-the-swiss-alps-personeni-raffaele-scharer-architectes Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Megan Jett https://www.archdaily.com/155382/shelter-in-the-swiss-alps-personeni-raffaele-scharer-architectes The chalet, is located in the Swiss Alps, in the Herens district, at an altitude of 1850 m. It was used as a shelter for livestock before its transformation into a holiday residence. Very popular in Switzerland, these types of transformations reveal several simultaneous realities. It is a well established fact that the collective status of these shelters often prevails over the individual quality of the object. On the other hand the modern use of the mountain cottage involving weekly round-trips, highlights the improbable all-terrain vehicle in the city and the inevitable garage and retaining wall in front of the mountain chalet. The mountain is not as natural and wild as it used to be in the same manner that cities are not urban enough.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/147152/eca-oai-office-building-personeni-raffaele-scharer-architectes Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Andrew Rosenberg https://www.archdaily.com/147152/eca-oai-office-building-personeni-raffaele-scharer-architectes The new building completes a city block in the centre of Vevey. The urban void be- hind the buildings was a residual space used as a parking lot and for utility purposes. The intervention took advantage of the void and turned it into a main hall for all the buildings of the block.

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