Architecture Landscape Urbanism S.
1 primary work
Book 7
The house of stone is the kind of project that happens only rarely - a house built to the highest standards of cratfsmanship with the full suppport of the client, who acted as a patron of architecture in almost a Renaissance sense. This publication documents in full its making. It covers the initial phase of the project, the invited competition between Meili + Peter and Peter Zumthor, and contains a detailed description of the concepts underlying the design. A particular focus is the relation between the structural and the technical aspects of the project, which is described through engineering and working drawings as well as photographs of the house under construction. It seems that the know-how and the structuring of construction companies in Switzerland have allowed the architects to achieve things in this house that would be too arduous in many other countries. But even in Switzerland the methods of construction are changing, and soon a building like this may be impossible to match - there, or anywhere.