Small building located in a natural basin, strongly conditioned by the geomorphology of the land. Its strong structural character articulates the demands of privacy and extroversion of the inhabitants at the same time and in a supportive way where necessary.
The house is designed for a family of four persons. The irregular outer form of the building is determined by the shape of the plot and the respective border distances.
A clear rectangle is inscribed in this irregular form, which corresponds to the heated interior living space; on the valley and mountain sides, inner courtyards are located in front of the living space.
The building ground is located slightly elevated on the edge of a housing development and boarders three-sided to the agricultural zone.
The wide open space is decisive to this architectural concept.
The house and its surrounding design are a part of this generous landscape space. Neither garden fencing nor plants should delineathe the perimeter border and restrict the openness of the landscape.
The Mobility Hub Zug Nord (MHZN) is mobility hub, parking structure, retail area and public space at the same time. Located at the entrance to the TechCluster Zug and the urban district of Zug Nord, the MHZN offers parking space for the employees of the TechCluster and for the public, as well as transfer options to bike, scooter, bus, or a future autonomous shuttle service. With a photovoltaic pergola, connection to the area energy network, charging stations and flexibility for autonomously parking vehicles, the building is also technically planned with foresight. A specialty store for craftsmen and a bistro are brining additional life to the area.
Following a significant demographic growth in the city of Meyrin, in particular, in the Vergers district, an evolution of the existing sports installation and infrastructure was required.
Our team successfully lead the design and construction of new sports installations. The design was influenced and constricted by the existence of two legacy sports buildings from the 1980’s.
An international pharmaceuticals company has moved into new Swiss headquarters in The Circle, right next to Zurich Airport. We helped the company transition to a New Work environment: developing a spatial concept for the new office that was the product of more than 30 joint discussion rounds and workshops. In place of standardised, individual workstations, we designed a work environment that focuses on the individual needs of employees. The result is an office that packs a punch, differentiating while remaining flexible: with flowing, changeable spaces, set within a strong design framework.
Pasodoble offers a home to people with mental disabilities and to students, as well as collective and social housing. Commercial spaces and a center for physical training and rehabilitation are located on the ground floor. A continuous arched portico binds them together and forms the structural base of the building.
Two distinct volumes accommodate this diverse programme. They share an enfilade of slightly shifted patios. Together they reconcile the two different alignments on site and frame a majestic cedar tree. The space and the tension between the two bodies is reminiscent of the popular dance pasodoble, and creates the architectural theme and stimulates collective delight.
The water and the light are two archaic and fluid elements, used to reinvent a dark and severe villa on the Geneva lake, turning it into a house with a contemporary appeal. Long corridors, dark doors and window, fake terracotta floors; in the basement, a pool tiled with an obsolete pale blue mosaic, an old sauna, all surrounded by rustic plastered walls: this was the state of the villa before the intervention. To regain an harmonious dialogue with the “genius loci” of the lake, the beginning was the pool: turn it into a kind of added “living room”, as if it was a normal room, like any other but flooded by the water of the lake.
The house is located in the area of via campagnola in Genestrerio, characterized by a diffuse settlement mainly inhabited. The ground is located at the border with the wood on the north side. Our intervention consists of a house on one floor. The access is through an existing road to the south where a canopy welcomes the parking spaces and the entrance of the house. The living area is organized longitudinally to the north in order to relate these spaces through large windows with the forest. Illuminated from the south, the forest becomes present in the living room. A patio organized to the south, allows the sunlight to penetrate into the living room and, at the same time, becomes the intimate and private space where the rooms, which are arranged transversely on the south side, are oriented.
The house is concrete building. The windows and doors are internally in wood and externally in aluminum. Inside, all the fixed furniture has been designed in wood essence oak, as the interior doors and windows.
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