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 pastured terrace, which is formed by the garage’s diagonally placed volumes and has a basin cut in, referring to the structure orthogonally and centrally. In spite of its spaciousness, the residential wing is compact and develops up the slope over three levels. Adjacent to the driveway, a roomy entrance hall offers space for arrivals, greetings, putting things away – and also for helping into coats and friendly farewells.

The family’s private area is located above, on the actual ground floor, where the children’s rooms directly access the garden. In the building’s projecting end, their parents can enjoy the view on the lake through a wrap-around window giving to the west. Passing this “entresol”, visitors reach the rear part of the upper floor over a two-flight cascade stairway. Climbing up through the high-slender room, they are accompanied along the stairways by two slender windows giving to the north. And arriving on top, the room opens out and a 180-degree turn accentuates the entire open residential area, around which a glass wrapping is drawn from the south side to in the front and around the frontal area.

Finally, venturing on, visitors encounter the cooking and dining zones and are increasingly captured by the view on Bregenz Bay. An overhanging canopy shades the roof garden, placed in front to the west and accessed by a narrow roofed walk.

The corridor runs from the higher-level, slope-side terrain past the glass front, directly interlocking the residential story with the garden.

(Walter Zschokke)