Valerio Olgiati

Atelier Bardill

Atelier Bardill
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ATELIER BARDILL

Valerio Olgiati

ARCHITECTS
Valerio Olgiati

YEAR
2007

AREA
285.0 m2

LOCATION
Scharans , Switzerland

CATEGORY
Offices, Adaptive Reuse

The Atelierhouse Bardill replaces an old barn in the protected centre of the village Scharans.

The building permission was granted by the local authorities only under the condition that the new building would have exactly the same volume as the old barn.

Atelier Bardill
© Valerio Olgiati
Atelier Bardill
© Valerio Olgiati

The client, Linard Bardill, who lives in a house a very short walking distance away from the site, needed only one single space, a room to work in. This working space occupies not even a third of the stipulated volume.

The rest of it constitutes a courtyard that is monumentalized by a huge round opening to the sky. This is where the house expresses greatness and clearness in contrast to the arbitrary geometry of its external appearance and to the small-scale environment of the village.

Atelier Bardill
© Valerio Olgiati
Atelier Bardill
© Valerio Olgiati
Atelier Bardill
© Valerio Olgiati


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