The new building is located in a privileged but sprawled urban area above Locarno, with an overwhelming view on the city, the surrounding mountains and the lake. The project is a discrete reaction to a daily subject: to build into a crowded and chaotic urbanized area.

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Architects: Wespi de Meuron Romeo architects

Location: Minusio, Switzerland

Project Year: 2005

Photographs: Hannes Henz

Construction Supervision : Guscetti Arch. Dipl.

Engineer: Anastasi SA

Building Physics: IFEC Consulenze SA

Constructor: Merlini + Ferrari SA

Carpenter: Erich Keller AG

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From the architect. The new building is located in a privileged but sprawled urban area above Locarno, with an overwhelming view on the city, the surrounding mountains and the lake. The project is a discrete reaction to a daily subject: to build into a crowded and chaotic urbanized area.

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Plan 2

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Therefore all attributes of a classical house were totally omitted. Two simple steaning cubes are emerging from the hill ? fragmentarily - more associated to the landscape than to the other existing buildings ? more alike a wall than a house ? and time less.

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