Long and narrow The site along the curve of the Amts-bach in Absam lies a good three metres below the level of the nearby road. The curve of the river forms the western boundary of the low-lying garden, on which a few old apple trees stand. At the southern tip a narrow, roughly 27-metre-long wooden bridge leads across the rushing stream to the leftover area of the retention basin. The bridge was erected so that the house could be built here. Now it leads directly to a path that brings you to the long, narrow, 6.6 metre high house that architect Geri Blasisker tailored precisely to suit the needs of his client and her son. The power generated from the fall of the stream by the turbines of the neighbouring saw-mill also supplies the house. The site is around eleven metres wide and 50 metres long, in the south the house tapers to full-height French windows one metre in width: this end of the building rises like the prow of a ship out of the lawn and then extends nineteen metres into the depth of the garden. There, after a varied, split-level interior full of individual spatial sequences, it ends in a tapering roof terrace. It, too, is just 1.40 metres wide.
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