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Casa dell'architetto Sorengo / Switzerland / 2007

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My strongest belief is the search for the essential, that means avoiding the superfluous. I was shocked by Adolf Looses words, that ornament in architecture is a crime, an idea which Mies van der Rohe formulated as Less is more. The exercise I did on our own house was therefore quite easy: void dominates on full; difficult is to place concrete functionality in an abstract space. In one entire space – a cavern – we find niches for subjective intimacies. The house assembles the fundamental elements of life: water, fire and light. Light is the essential element in generating spaces. Furthermore there is no means to forget the landscape in which you want to operate. I had the chance that this place chose me, which makes things even easier. The materials are used sincerely, that means in strict relation to their original use: the primitive housing dug in the rock, my house dug in concrete. In architecture there is nothing left to invent: what one can nowadays see is nothing but a ridiculous challenge to gravity. The "great" contemporary architecture has fallen back in old ornamentalism with all his abstruse forms. Did the roots of housing really change?
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    My strongest belief is the search for the essential, that means avoiding the superfluous. I was shocked by Adolf Looses words, that ornament in architecture is a crime, an idea which Mies van der Rohe formulated as Less is more. The exercise I did on our own house was therefore quite easy: void dominates on full; difficult is to place concrete functionality in an abstract space. In one entire space – a cavern – we find niches for subjective intimacies. The house assembles the fundamental...

    Project details
    • Year 2007
    • Work started in 2006
    • Work finished in 2007
    • Status Completed works
    • Type Single-family residence
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