Tough textures and a blocky inside outline Residential Barn in a Hamlet Zone, a house that Swiss studio BE Architektur has accomplished in a small agricultural city close to Zurich.
The timber-clad dwelling is meant to pay homage to the city’s historical past by means of the inclusion of options that resemble conventional barns close by.
To realize this, BE Architektur clad the constructing in spruce wooden and topped it with a tiled pitched roof.
“The brand new dwelling enters right into a thematic dialogue with the encircling agricultural buildings for a singular interpretation of the vernacular barn typology,” studio founder Boris Egli advised Dezeen.
“It reinterprets the easy, unadorned nature of a conventional barn by means of its alternative of supplies,” Egli continued.
Inside, the rooms are organised in a staggered association that attracts on the thought of a barn as a storage unit. Concrete flooring are left uncovered and complemented by textured light-grey plaster on the partitions for a uncooked, unfinished look.
“A barn is often used for storage and as a workroom for agricultural manufacturing, and though this new constructing will not be a depository, its rooms are ‘saved’ inside it as closed volumes and are figuratively stacked on prime of each other,” mentioned Egli.
“This ‘stacking’ creates a sculptural inside, a optimistic spatial quantity inside the constructing.”
On the bottom flooring, the rooms are set on completely different ranges to create a flooring that steps up and down in response to the topography of the location under.
“Constructing on a slope often requires excavation behind the constructing and backfilling in entrance,” the studio defined. “This method was intentionally rejected. As a substitute, the bottom flooring is organized in a sequence of ranges at completely different heights to observe the prevailing slope,” it continued.
Roughly plastered blocks organized throughout the bottom flooring comprise hidden areas, together with storage rooms, a mechanical room and a toilet,
A sequence of interconnected, open residing areas wrap round these staggered blocks, serving to to attach the rooms of the house.
To the best of the doorway, a kitchen and eating house options timber joinery that has been set into the concrete partitions. It’s ignored by a balcony and illuminated by a big hanging mild.
Accessed by a pair of steps, the lounge is nestled amongst different blocky volumes on the decrease degree. It options earth-toned furnishings and timber shutters that span a big glazed opening.
On the primary flooring, intersecting volumes and plastered partitions create uniquely formed areas, together with two bedrooms, loos, and an workplace.
The attic incorporates multipurpose house and a storage room, in addition to a comfy studying space that contains a low, sloping ceiling and angular partitions.
Along with the primary dwelling, the studio added a freestanding two-car storage that options the identical timber construction as the primary dwelling.
Different Swiss houses not too long ago featured on Dezeen embody a lime- and hemp-clad dwelling remodeled from a pigsty and a stone micro-home transformed from an outdated wooden retailer.
The images is by Vito Stallone.
