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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

A HOUSE FOR ART COLLECTOR in Geneva, Switzerland by ChristianDupraz Architects

January 14th, 2014 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: ChristianDupraz Architects

I’d like a massive house, safe and fragrant like my childhood. I will make you a sheltered house like the ones I love.” It is through an on going conversation between the architect and client that the realisation of this house was achieved. On an exceptional site, along the edge of the centre of Geneva, this white house, with its pure geometry, is a part in itself. If the square plan is the basis for its composition, it surprises through its malleability and functional complexity.

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Architects: ChristianDupraz Architects
Project: A HOUSE FOR ART COLLECTOR
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Photography: Adrien Missika , Christian Dupraz Architects
Client name: Private
Date of completion: 2010-2007
Dimensions: 690 m2
Cost: N.D.

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The central staircase sets the tone for the vertical distribution; it is the vital object that dispenses all the various rooms in a compositional game close to the Raumplan by Adolf Loos. Through the offset of the plan and the biased position of the ridge, together with the affirmation of two identical pinions, the house offers amazing form variations on the façade. The multiple window frames of varying dimensions situate the house in a contemporary reinterpretation of a certain tradition.

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Tags: Geneva, Switzerland

Category: House

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