Pascal Flammer Architekten

House in Balsthal

House in Balsthal
© Ioana Marinescu

HOUSE IN BALSTHAL

PASCAL FLAMMER

ARCHITECTS
PascaL FLAMMER

CATEGORY
Houses

LOCATION
Balsthal, Switzerland

PHOTOGRAPHER
Ioana Marinescu

PROJECT YEAR
2013

MANUFACTURERES
Arwa, Novatop

Text description provided by architect.

This timber house is about different ways of perceiving the landscape surrounding it. There are two principal floors; one set 750mm below the earth, one 1500mm above.

House in Balsthal
© Ioana Marinescu
House in Balsthal
© Ioana Marinescu

The ground floor consists of one single family room with a noticeably low horizontal ceiling. In this space there is a physical connection with the nature outside the continuous windows.

The space above is the inverse. This floor is divided into four equal rooms with 6m high ceilings. The height defines the space.

House in Balsthal
© Ioana Marinescu
House in Balsthal
© Ioana Marinescu

Large windows open to composed views of the wheat field. Whereas the ground floor is about connecting with the visceral nature of the context, the floor above is about observing nature - a more distant and cerebral activity.

Whereas the ground floor is about connecting with the visceral nature of the context, the floor above is about observing nature - a more distant and cerebral activity.

House in Balsthal
© Ioana Marinescu
House in Balsthal
© Ioana Marinescu
House in Balsthal
© Ioana Marinescu

House in Balsthal
© Ioana Marinescu
House in Balsthal
© Ioana Marinescu
House in Balsthal
© Ioana Marinescu
House in Balsthal
© Ioana Marinescu
House in Balsthal
© Ioana Marinescu
House in Balsthal
© Ioana Marinescu
House in Balsthal
© Ioana Marinescu


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