Article source: Rossetti + Wyss Architekten 

The house in Gottshalden is located on a plateau over the Lake Zurich. It is set in green surroundings with a high quality of life, dominated by agriculturaluse. The volume exhibits a unified design, with a reduced, sharp-angled timber facade. The furniture-like wooden skin defines both walls and rooftops, covering the exterior in a single material, unbroken. The various geometries lend the structure plasticity, while the windows flush with the exterior, are emphasized with lighter-colored reveals.

Image Courtesy © Jürg Zimmermann

• Architects: Rossetti + Wyss Architekten
• Project: Gottshalden
• Location: zurich, Switzerland
• Photography: Jürg Zimmermann
• Year of completion: 2012
• Netto surface area: 320 m2
• Site area: 2’300 m2
• Project leader: Claudio Sticca
• Supporting structure: Dr. Lüchinger+MeyerBauingenieure AG, Zürich Switzerland
• Electro planning: ZürcherElektroplanungen AG, St. Gallen Switzerland
• Heating and ventilation planning: Geiger AG, WädenswilSwitzerland
• Building physics: BWS Bauphysik AG, Winterthur Switzerland
• Execution: October 2010, May 2012
• Software used: Topcad

Article source: Rossetti + Wyss Architekten 

HOUSE AT ZIMMERBERG BOTTOM

The one-story house, which has impressive diagonal views of Lake Zurich and the Alps, issituated on the upperedge of the village, on a longish, slightly sloping site. The constructionisd efined by a guide wall and angular concrete wall establishing the diagonal panorama towards the lake.

Image Courtesy © Jürg Zimmermann

• Architects: Rossetti + Wyss Architekten
• Project: House at Zimmerberg Bottom
• Location: Zurich, Switzerland
• Photography: Jürg Zimmermann
• Project leader: Tobias Lindenmann
• Collaborators: Claudio Sticca, Caroline Welter
• Supporting structure: Ingenieurbüro Hansruedi Schlatter, Oberrieden
• Building physics: Bakus Bauphysik & Akustik GmbH, Zürich
• Execution: April 2006, February2007
• Living area: 170 squaremetres
• Software used: TopCad