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- Architects: Wespi de Meuron Romeo architects
- Location: Minusio, Switzerland
- Project Year: 2005
- Photographs: Hannes Henz
- Construction Supervision : Guscetti Arch. Dipl.
- Engineer: Anastasi SA
- Building Physics: IFEC Consulenze SA
- Constructor: Merlini + Ferrari SA
- Carpenter: Erich Keller AG
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From the architect. The new building is located in a privileged but sprawled urban area above Locarno, with an overwhelming view on the city, the surrounding mountains and the lake. The project is a discrete reaction to a daily subject: to build into a crowded and chaotic urbanized area.
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Plan 2
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Therefore all attributes of a classical house were totally omitted. Two simple steaning cubes are emerging from the hill – fragmentarily – more associated to the landscape than to the other existing buildings – more alike a wall than a house – and time less.
Section
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Section
Habitable interiors are generated through cavities. Two similar big openings, with wooden grids serving as moveable gates, are providing access and view.
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Additional light is taken in through courtyards. The water of the swimming pool, embedded in the valley facing cube, merges perfectly with the lake.
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