Wood House In Caviano
WOOD HOUSE IN CAVIANO
Wespi de Meuron Romeo architects
ARCHITECTS
Markus Wespi Jérôme de Meuron architects
LOCATION
Caviano, Switzerland
CATEGORY
Houses
YEAR
Text description provided by architect.
The house is located in an area of new buildings outside the historical center of Caviano, with a wonderful view on the lake and the mountains.
With its silver-dark-gray color and pure shape the house takes itself inconspicuously back and connects with natural stonewalls of the surroundings rather than with the heterogeneous buildings.
A hillside volume extension embodies the house with the mountain and enables a direct access to the upper house level.
The irregular window setting is melting the floors to a unit without recognizable partitioning.
Large space-strutted panorama openings alternate with small square ventilation windows.
To achieve an optimization of costs, it has been chosen a prefabricated timber construction, a compact volume, simple details and low cost materials.
At the inside the prefabrication is recognizable - the raw wood elements remains visible and are painted with the same silver-dark-gray colour as it was used for the timber facades.
