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NEW APPROACHES
The family of five went to architects Bearth & Deplazes with clear wishes and ideas regarding how their new home should be built. These were not the usual whims and dreams but presented the team of architects with unaccustomed challenges. The future family home was to consist of many individual rooms. In order to keep the costs as low as possible, the owners wanted to do as much of the work as possible themselves and to use prefabricated products for construction. This had a determining influence, both on the architecture and the materials used and thus reflects one of the design's basic ideas. For the location, the family chose a clearing in the forest on a slope at the edge of the center of Seveign.
EYE-CATCHER
The architectural concept is based on a tower-like structure with split-level rooms. The building with its wedge-shaped ground plan is embedded between the slope of the mountain and a foothill.
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As the building faces towards the east, the occupants have a good long-distance view over the magnificently wild and romantic valley of the Vorderrhein.
The entrance initially leads into a two-storey hall. If you go down the steps, you arrive in the dining room with adjoining kitchen. Going upwards, the stairs lead to the living room with gallery and a panorama window that reveals an impressive view of the valley below. On the two floors above, there is the parents' bedroom and three children's rooms. In order to make the small rooms appear larger, sets of two rooms are connected to each other by means of a split-level along the long wall of the building to form a continuum of rooms.
During planning, the civil defence room, which is obligatory for Swiss houses, also had to be taken into account.
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