Article source: clavienrossier architectes hes/sia

Situated away from a small village in the middle of the Swiss Alps (Canton of Valais), this 19th century house included an adjacent barn and had a too vast volume to be renewed in its totality. The existing building had no special qualities apart from the thick stone walls hidden by external plaster cement. The double-sided pitched roof was too low to allow us seeing the surrounding landscape from the garret floor. The existing windows were small; a large part of the volume was blind, half the building was being used as a barn. Consequently, we preferred to intervene directly on the existing building, walls and roof included.

Northeast facade at dusk

• Architect: clavienrossier architectes hes/sia
• Name of Project: Transformation in Charrat
• Location: Charrat, canton of Valais, Switzerland
• Design team: Valéry Clavien and Nicolas Rossier
• Gross floor area: 230 m2 and 740 m3 SIA (SIA means Society of Engineers and Architects, and sia cubic meter means a way to calculate
• Scope of work: from January 2009 until March 2010.

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