Residences

Kehlegg is a hamlet just above Dornbirn, together with Ebnit and Watzenegg, it is an Alpine site among the villages that formed the city which is known today as Dornbirn. The location at the end of a winding Alpine road may have made economic conditions for the surrounding farms more difficult compared to the Rhine ...

The architectural solution stages a play of two cubes stacked on top of each other. Their delicate appearance conjures up lightness that contrasts with the dimension as well as the choice of material, “heavy” exposed concrete. This tension between the image of the house and the provoked experience-based ...

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Das Grundstück liegt an einem Westhang auf 900 m Höhe und bietet einen spektakulären Blick auf den Zeller See. Aufgrund der exponierten Lage erschien eine Orientierung an den umliegenden landwirtschaftlichen Nutzbauten angebracht. Im Hang versteckt liegt ein Untergeschoß mit Garage und Nebenräumen, das auch den ...

Single-family houses such as this one are one of those distinguished examples of a contemporary typology. Their functionality no longer follows the patterns of peasant life, but rather embodies a haven for the family in a fairly peaceful setting. The traditional forms of modern architecture are enhanced by the texture ...

The architectural design pays homage to the view and the orientation of the site near the state border of Austria and Liechtenstein. This unique situation offers a magnificent view of the Rhine Valley in Vorarlberg, which must not be obstructed by new development. The three-story building, sited on the south-eastern ...

One of the characteristic features of modernism is to create space through the specific and reduced Setzung (i.e. German for accentuation) of walls and openings. In a rather ordinary residential area in the Czech Republic, one of the traditional countries of modernism, this design approach brought forth a family ...

The house of the Lecher family is situated right at the edge of the red hazard zone. Masses of snow roll closely past the house, when the annual avalanche at the Omesberg is set off by an explosion. The power of the blast was therefore included in the technical parameters of the support structure. Heavy wooden gates ...

Through its form and position on the site the angular structure defines not only the entrance, but also the private living quarters, which are shielded from outside views, creating a deliberate separation from the main access road of the residential area. The house is accessed via an entrance court on the basement ...

Far above the city of Dornbirn, where farmed land terminates, only a few houses are adjacent to this residence and haven of calm close to the woodlands. Three stories create a terraced landscape with separate interior and exterior spaces. A few architectural gestures suffice to offer a combination of privacy and a ...

Das Zwillingshafte, das Duale, bestimmt das Wesen dieses Hauses. Fest verankert im Gelände sitzt es mit seiner Schindelung aus Lärchenholz ganz selbstverständlich in der Landschaft. Auf dem steilen Hanggrundstück, nahe der Verbindungsstraße vom Bregenzerwald ins Rheintal, sind zwei der vier Geschosse sichtbar, ...

A narrow freight way leads out of the town and disappears behind the hillside, sloping through a rising clearing. Below the path, shielded by a rubble wall and only connected to a wide bridge, the house appears to dock to the hill like a boat. Ready at all times to hoist anchor and leave the locale behind ...

The client searched a long time for the right property in a peripheral district of Schaffhausen. The plot pertains to a district development plan which has been partly realized. House S was built on one of the last remaining parcels. The design sought to marry the different qualities of the immediate (forest) and ...

Two rhythmical rows of large plates consisting of black-dyed precast concrete units frame the building at its visible side. It points to a private garden and presents itself as an archaic symbol of building tradition. However, the house at the foot of the local mountain of Bregenz was deliberately not designed as a ...

The elderly mother of the client lived alone in a small house that had been built in the 1950s with a large garden. The client wanted to create new living space for his family of five and envisioned at first a new building on another property. To be able to take care of the mother and for economic reasons an annex and ...

With a long-drawn left-hand bend, the ascending streetlet circumvents the gentle hollow of a slope, loosely developed with single-family dwellings. The house, an ashlar with a differentiated front, is integrated in the upper part, on declivous ground. The broad side enjoys its exposure to the south and a view upon a ...

One older and another more recent house are located in the village’s southeast, on the edge of a plateau gathering the buildings of a small hamlet. Their faces enjoy a view over a meadow-covered terrace giving to the valley of the Bregenzer Ach river. The mighty Kanisfluh stands in the south. The house’s design ...

The angular house is located on the margins of a building area that opens out into flat meadowland. The design corresponds to its remote location on a settlement's edge, with a clear mass division and variously graded extents of privacy. In the evening, the workshop’s frosted glass ashlar, shining like a lantern, is ...

The narrow two-story dwelling is placed at a right angle to the wooded slope rising behind it. The building is a prefabricated timber construction, which reflects a uniform order. The layout reveals a recessed and covered entrance. The outside enters the simple residential unit. The ground floor houses a garage, ...

A small alpine pasture of a former three-farm cooperative which is typical for the region was the chosen site for this single-family house. The basic layout of the “Vorsässhütte” (alpine hut) was adopted and slightly modified. Only a small portion of the relatively large land is developed. The longitudinal ...