After a long search the clients have found this homestead - ensemble, dating back to the end of the 19th century, composed of a residence, a shed and a barn.
The 15‘000m2 property is located in a agricultural zone close to the Lake of Lucerne.
The aspiration was to create a superior and attractive courtyard scenery in terms of landscape design and architecture and revaluate the surrounding cultivated landscape.
The original residential building has been replaced in the 80ies. This building of a doubtful architectural quality gave place to the new house, that is positioned according to the original location, facing the shed.
The two buildings form a courtyard-like exterior space that, in combination with the herb garden, forms the core of the “hamlet”. An elongated pathway seamed with trees and bushes connects the residential building with the barn, that has been renovated with minimal interventions to come up to todays needs.
Inside this large expansive interior space of the former utility building, prefabricated containers are stacked on top of each other, hosting a “Schwyzerörgeli-collection”, collection of swiss accordions.
这栋居住建筑的外观用当地特有的木框建筑法建成，裸露的木料结构上覆盖着涂有灰泥的砖块。木料结构形成的图案花样令人着迷。这是当地农村建筑的一个明显特征，同时又具有现代美感。
屋顶的形状反映了现存公用建筑的共同特征，并与户外风景实现了最优化融合，与阿尔卑斯山全景相互映衬。水果树遍布在周围肥沃的土地上。
对本地化构造的转变和转型，是有意为之，同时又融合进一种现代化建筑手法，以适应今日之需求。这对一栋现代建筑而言是具有开创性意义的，其建筑和外形与周围风景相契合。
The facade of the residential building is constructed in a local typical timber frame method, the exposed timber structure is filled with plastered bricks. The graphic quality of the pattern generated by the timber structure has fascinated us ever since. As a conspicuous character of the vernacular rural building tradition,it is overlaid with the contemporary aesthetic.
The common entity to the existing utility buildings and the optimal integrity into the landscape image has been achieved by the shape of the roof, that is reflecting the significant panoramic view over the alps at the same time.
Fruit trees are spread over the generous surrounding property.
The transfer and transformation of vernacular configurations - especially in terms of volumetry and materialisation - are deliberately intended, melted down in a contemporary way and adapted to todays needs. This is leading to a contemporary architecture, that integrates itself in gestalt as well as construction and materialisation into the surrounding landscape.
内部的设计和建筑质量从视野和采光方面来说很理想。房间基本由混凝土元素构成，有垂直循环系统、壁炉和防水淋浴室，四周是生活区、用餐区和卧室，从富有吸引力的楼梯向上直到屋顶，形成了一个流畅的连续统一空间。
我们的主要目的是发展一种设计风格，设计的虽一眼看去是现代建筑，却带有传统建筑的风格。
这栋居住建筑既有本地化乡村建筑的简洁和坦率，又兼具现代建筑的舒适和新颖巧妙，别具风格。
The design and architectural qualities in the interior consist of ideally oriented floor plans in relation to view and daylight. Essentially the house is made of concrete elements containing the vertical circulation, fireplace and wet-rooms, surrounded by the living- and dining areas as well as bedrooms, generating a fluent room continuum around the attractive stair-space up until under the roof.
Our main aim was to develop a language, that nourishes itself from traditional architecture, however is immediately away perceived as contemporary architecture, without being conservatively romanticising.
The oscillation between simplicity, vernacular rural straightforwardness, contemporary comfort and architectural ingenuity, gives a very specific character to the residential building.
