GAFPA, house gentbrugge, Gent, 2012

GAFPA, house gentbrugge, Gent, 2012

Johannes Norlander Arkitektur, House Morran, Gothenburg, 2011

Smiljan Radic, casa habitacion, San Miguel, Chile, 1992-96

From Valerio Olgiati’s image archive.

MIKHAIL BELOV 

BRIDGE ACROSS THE RUBICON, COMPETITION PROJECT, 1987

Tadao Ando, Glass Block House, Osaka, Japan, 1978

Pascal Flammer, House in Basthal, Switzerland, 2013

Raphael Zuber, Grono Schoolhouse, Switzerland, 2011

Melnikov House, Arbat District, Moscow, Russia, 1927

Jaccaud Zein, Shepherdess Walk housing, London, 2016

The structure provides three principal types of spatial relations with its surroundings; on the ground floor, since the columns are in the middle of the façade, the resulting space feels strongly connected to the landscape. On the first floor the columns are in the corner, producing a more defined and centered space. The top floor is divided into four niches, each framing a specific view. All floors are linked by a ‘double stair’, which forms the core of the building and provides the possibility of moving through the office conventionally, or if necessary, unseen. This device allows the sequence of spaces usually created by stacking floors to be broken down. Each floor is now connected to another, and depending on which opening is used, it is possible to move directly from one floor to another avoiding the intermediate. All columns in the façades have the same dimension irrespective of their structural requirements – making the structural forces difficult to read. In contrast, the roof architrave, which could be seen as a classical allusion, is simply a result of the largest structural ‘moment’.

Pascal Flammer, Office in Zurich, 2000, unbuilt

Barozzi Veiga, House in Cretas, Spain, 2014

Barozzi Veiga, Library of Contemporary International Documentation, Nanterre, France, 2016

Barozzi Veiga, Graubünden Museum of Fine Arts, Chur 

Loeliger Strub, Housing Complex, Zurich, 2015

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