Home of Chambers / Marte.Marte Architects

Home of Chambers / Marte.Marte Architects

Textual content description supplied by the architects. Positioned on a steep hillside alongside the northeast fringe of the settlement, the Home of Chambers lays the Rhine Valley instantly at your ft. Surprisingly compact, even monolithic, the spatial sculpture digs its method into the slope: a dice and a courtyard in the course of a large alpine meadow.

From the surface, the constructing reveals little of the inside, opening up solely alongside the diagonal line from the highest of the valley to the underside. The design represents a radical strategy, packing the capabilities in a finely balanced system of chambers, linked geometrically, inside which dwells a poetic-philosophic side.

The uncovered concrete home dispenses with the latest standard customary methods of homes with sculptured gardens, retaining partitions, and terraces and makes a strong counterargument: a home, a hillside, a courtyard. The highly effective ensemble of cube-shaped homes and entrance courtyard, wedged into the hillside, solves all these tough slope points with simply these two figures stamped into the panorama.

They’re merely planted into the virtually unchanged hill in the course of a large alpine meadow. Guests approaching the constructing by automobile or on foot first arrive within the elevated courtyard with its reflecting pool. The corresponding sauna/wellness space, situated at avenue degree, is protected against the prying eyes by a wood-paneled courtyard. Automobiles and folks disappear into the underground entrance hid by the hillside.

The ground plan relies on 4 quadrants of a sq. = sq. squared. Three of those are enclosed by monolithic concrete partitions, whereas the fourth quadrant is a southwest-facing terrace. The residing space on the primary aboveground degree enjoys afternoon and night solar. On the upper bed room degree, the constructing strikes in the wrong way, with the 2 remaining spatial models additionally encircling a terrace, however this time to the northeast. The 2 ‘chambers’ contact on the ‘zero’ line on the z-axis.

The idea dematerializes their structural hyperlink to the purpose of zero, the 2 rooms being linked as a substitute visually by the space-defining rows of full-height home windows and doorways on the slope aspect. The varied staircases – spiral and single-flight staircases – reply to the association of rooms and performance and set the stage for considering the sculpture and its symmetry on a walk-through alongside the diagonal. Small gentle wells on the high of the steps and a skylight above the stairwell reinforce this impact.

It’s wonderful how effectively geometry, purism, and poetry pair collectively on this finely balanced design of a hillside home. This construct composition skillfully circumvents the standard architectural traps in pondering and on the similar time makes an unparalleled dialectical assertion.