Single-family home | Blosseggrain, Meggen

1984 - 1985
in collaboration with Bruno Zurkirchen

Project manager: Jürg Grunder, Dipl. Arch. HTL

Photographer: Heinrich Helfenstein

The task consisted of planning a single-family home that could accommodate at least five rooms over a gross floor area of 170 square metres. The prominently located, expensive plot on a south-facing slope, with a view of the Alps and a very low utilisation factor, is situated in a neighbourhood of single-family homes with rigorous planning regulations. The new house presents itself as a fragment of a traditional gabled building, constructed using the means of modern architecture. The modern implementation ensured that the spatial relationships between the interior and exterior elements are intensified, thereby achieving a generous spatial effect despite the very limited living space. The interior materialisation is characterised by in-situ polished Florentine travertine, which extends as a flooring layer to the outdoor area of the terrace and the forecourt. The balustrade covers and cornices are made of Belgian granite. The smooth walls have a skin-like feel, while the white plaster was sprayed with a silky gloss paint.