Frundgallina SA

Community Shelter

Community Shelter
© Milo Keller

COMMUNITY SHELTER

Frundgallina

ARCHITECTS
Frundgallina

PHOTOGRAPHS
Milo Keller

MANUFACTURERS
Horgenglarus AG

CATEGORY
Community Center

LOCATION
Mollens, Switzerland

YEAR
2010

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Implanted between two historic stone buildings, in an exceptional place, the new building is characterised by a volume inserted into the ground and emerging at both ends at different altitudes.

Community Shelter
© Milo Keller
Community Shelter
© Milo Keller

Its size and orientation are precisely defined by the topography of the site. The upper terrace, old area of milking cows, retains its character and proportions of origin.

The volumetric impact on this remarkable site is reduced. It boils down to the appearance on the surface of two precise and mineral shapes, abstract marks and isolated contextual scale.

Community Shelter
© Milo Keller
Community Shelter
© Milo Keller

These emergences define the access to the main space and bring the natural light as differentiated way.

For its physical, properties, the concrete, here used in its simplest form, replaced the stone.

At the time wall and roof, it expresses multiple possibilities of use.

Community Shelter
© Milo Keller
Community Shelter
© Milo Keller

The strong mineral expression becomes the dominant feature of the new construction and gives the building a real authenticity and established a particular dialogue between tradition and modernity.


Community Shelter
© Milo Keller
Community Shelter
© Milo Keller
Community Shelter
© Milo Keller
Community Shelter
© Milo Keller


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Frundgallina SA
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Frundgallina SA
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