CONTEMPORIST

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 01:18 PM PST

LRS Architects designed this home for a family in Genolier, Switzerland.

This single family house built in an area with strong zoning ordinances, diverts the vernacular language of the typical chalet into a playful and contemporary architecture. The topographical insertion, in a «plug-in» way, inverts the interior walk and the superposition of the functions. Reachable from the upper side of the plot, the living spaces evolves underneath the roof, facing the magnificient landscape of the Alps and Lake Geneva. The intermediate floor with the parent and the children bedrooms offers a terrace. From the garden, the groundfloor is accessible with the innerpool and the workshop. So to speak, this single family house get immersed into the topography and let us play with the perceptions and the variation of scales. The relation between the inhabitant and the distant landscape (the lake and the Alps) and the nearby context (so are the garden, the terrace and the porche) is a central theme of the project. The utilisation of the larch gives a strong contrast with the mineral parts and the tiled roof introducing the stacking lecture.

Visit the LRS Architects website – here.

Megaweave by Dunja Weber

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 06:12 AM PST

Dunja Weber has designed the Megaweave outdoor seat made of intertwined wrought iron bars.

To carry out this plan it has been necessary to make the most of the malleability of the red-hot iron in order to put the textile technique into an oversize scale, intertwining horizontal and vertical iron sections. Using the strength of the hammer and a great manual skill, the 2 cm sections have been transformed into 7 cm large strips to create a comfortable seat. As if by magic, unlike textile fibres that stay soft, the iron sections, once they are cooled, become stiff again and create an extremely solid frame. The seat Megaweave is created with only six rings intertwined in this way, a lot of sweat and artisanal ability.

Visit Dunja Weber’s website – here.