Pierre Zoelly - Switzerland Residential Building and Studio Blumenrain 7, Lenzburg 1964 |
This ensemble, designed by Pierre Zoelly, of two seperate buildings consists of a house and a studio for Peter Hächler.
It is located in a narrow back road in Lenzburg, shielded from views by a wooden fence and several large trees. The buildings are described in the Guide to Swiss Architecture: "The diagonal, dark-stained timber shell of the residential building and the north-glazed brick cube of the studio with mortar "brows" emerging from the horizontal joints combine to create a harmonious entity in a garden of weeds. The construction of the residential building is of particular interest: a "concrete tree" rising from the cellar encloses the sanitary units and bears the wooden floor of the upper level and the timber roof. The façade is effectively a curtain-wall, expressed externally by its eroded corners." |