Single-family home | Knonau
Single-family home | Knonau2000 - 2001
Project manager: Daniel Tobler, Dipl. Arch. HTL
Photographer: Hannes Henz, Zurich
The house is based on a simple basic form with a saddle roof, which is manipulated by two large spaces cut out of the volume. This cutting-out method creates covered exterior spaces for the drive on the ground floor and the terrace on the upper level. The building reacts to the two main directions: on the one hand by the longitudinally staggered floor levels, and on the other with bedrooms on the entrance level, which are orientated towards the east, as well as on a residential level facing south and west. The relationship to the landscape and the outdoor surroundings is created by carefully positioned apertures. The storeys, which are interleaved and structured as a result of the topography, provide various room heights for different functional areas. The simple, massive-construction building type with a raw-plastered exterior insulation and a roof covered in trapezoid aluminium sheeting, as well as external drainage, is appropriate for the required economic construction and thereby achieves an adequate architectural relationship to the simple buildings in the rural region.