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Brione House / Wespi de Meuron


28 Jan 2009 By Nico Saieh Filed under: Houses , Selected , Stone, Switzerland, Wespi de Meuron

Architects: Markus Wespi Jrme de Meuron architects Location: Brione sopra Minusio, TI, Switzerland Construction Supervision: Guscetti Arch. Dipl., 6648 Minusio Engineer: Anastasi SA, 6604 Locarno Building Physics: IFEC Consulenze SA, 6802 Rivera Contractor: Merlini + Ferrari SA, 6648 Minusio Carpenter: Erich Keller AG, 8583 Sulgen Project year: 2004-2005 Photographs: Hannes Henz

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. 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.

Habitable interiors are generated through cavities. Two similar big openings, with wooden grids serving as moveable gates, are providing access and view. Additional light is taken in through courtyards. The water of the swimming pool, embedded in the valley facing cube, merges perfectly with the lake.

Exterior view of the residence realized as two cubes emerging from the landscape
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The Building The residence is located in an up market urban sprawl above the city of Locarno. The site affords panoramic views onto the city, its surrounding mountains and lake.

View from within the interiors of the house onto the swimming pool.

Light is filtered in through strategically placed openings.

Habitable spaces are generated as cavities within the interiors of the cubes. Light is filtered into the interiors through strategic openings and through the courtyards. Two large openings, with wooden grids serve as moveable gates. The water of the swimming pool, embedded in the cube facing the valley, visually merges with the lake.
The new building is located in a densely built-up villas on Locarno district, with view on the city, lake and mountains. Only two simple cut, mutually staggered stone cubes work out from the mountain. Additional light is taken in through courtyards. The water of the swimming pool, embedded in the valley facing cube, merges perfectly with the lake.

Brione House, Brione sopra Minusio, Switzerland, by Markus Wespi Jrme de Meuron architects via: Arch Daily
Wood House // Caviano // Switzerland // Wespi de Meuron

The house by Wespi de Meuron 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 color as it was used for the timber facades. Project year: 2008 For more pictures visit: www.wespidemeuron.ch.

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