Area: 320 sqm
Year: 2012
Photos: Jürg Zimmermann
Project's description on ArchDaily [adapted]:
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 agricultural use. 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. The L-shaped
floor plan is organized vertically as a splitlevel through the use of
inserted platforms. Inside, solid exposed oak planks in composite
construction form the floors and ceilings.
This visible display of the building’s structure in its ceiling and
floor surfaces conveys the warmth of the material into the interior. The
alignment of the rooms switches from one story to the next. Light and
shadow, closeness and spaciousness, a cascading staircase: the interiors
breathe life in their diversity, inserted with careful precision in the
enveloping shell. The windows frame pictures of the surroundings. Ventilation is provided
by means of a series of glazed doors so as not to obstruct the view. At
dusk, the house begins to glow with a warm interior life. The building
is reduced to an almost graphical figure, with even the minimal
distances to the eaves and corners verging on disappearance.
- Rossetti + Wyss Architekten
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