Buchner Bruendler Architects Casa D'Estate Linescio, Switzerland 2011

摘要

Located in Linescio, a small village in the remote Rovana valley, is a 200-year-old stone building that is to be rebuilt as a summer house. The building has a cellar foundation, which extends deep into the steep slope. On the ground floor is a simple, unheated living room without water, above which is a hay loft with a loggia-like porch. The wooden structure with stone base, built in log house style, perpendicular to the building, was previously used to dry chestnuts. The building was empty for 50 years. The original, archaic building structure was to be preserved. The decision to create a summer house made it possible to do without heating, windows, and insulation and thereby leave the facade in its original state. The interior will be completely new, but conceived as equally simple and unfinished: as an autonomous concrete volume. The interior offers space for the most elementary residential needs: living space, sleeping area, and fireplace. The chimney, a cube of concrete projecting from the back wall, becomes a heat reservoir for the sleeping area lying directly above it.