Location: Lupsingen near Basel, Switzerland
Client: Private
Project year: 2004-2005
Project architect: Christoph Rothenhöfer
Civil engineer: Bitterli + Partner Ingenieure AG, Gelterkinden, Switzerland
Building physicist: reber.physics, Riehen, Switzerland
Photographs: Ruedi Walti, Menga von Sprecher
On the apartment level, the courtyard turns everything inside out. The three glassed sides allow for cross-views over the interior of the living space and also extend the view out through the windows. The sliding doors also open the living space to an extent that the border between interior and exterior becomes blurred. Yet the spatial structure remains clear, each room extending to the pitched roof area and thus gaining a defined atmosphere. Although this takes place on the inside, the house isn’t introverted. Suiting its situation, generous punch windows open up to the landscape.
A deliberate ambivalence can also be found at the structural level: the wooden structure of the first floor is not didactically opposed to the concrete structure of the ground floor. The difference in building materials can only be perceived in the chipboard and expanded copper paneling that form the semitransparent outer skin of the courtyard. These are new building materials that still have to stand the test of time.
The building’s appearance itself is also ambivalent. It is a body rather than a house in the traditional way. There is no distinction between roof and walls both are clad in slate. The entire envelope is the roof. There is no canopy and no gutter or rain pipes, the rainwater simply runs down the façade. Following the logic that there is only a roof only skylights have been used. Due to all these details the single-family house looks disturbingly different yet firmly rooted in its surroundings.
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