The new multi-family house ?Caspärsch? is located in the wine-growing village of Jenins at the foot of the mountain ?Vilan?. The terrain of the plot declines to the south and the view goes to the vineyards of the ?Bündner Herrschaft? and the Rhine-Valley of Chur.

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Architects: Schwabe Suter Architekten

Location: 7307 Jenins, Switzerland

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Roman Keller

Construction Management: Hotag Zizers AG, Zizers

Construction Engineer: Gadola A. Bauingenieur GmbH, Zizers

Electrical Planning: Albert Gisler, Chur

Sanitary Planning: Oecotec AG, Landquart

Building Physics: Kuster + Partner AG, Chur
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From the architect. The new multi-family house ?Caspärsch? is located in the wine-growing village of Jenins at the foot of the mountain ?Vilan?. The terrain of the plot declines to the south and the view goes to the vineyards of the ?Bündner Herrschaft? and the Rhine-Valley of Chur.

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Ground Floor

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The shape of the house is based on a simple rectangle, which is slightly distorted due to the limiting boundaries of the plot. The kink in the southern facade reduces the size of the volume visually and at the same time the house gets a ?face? towards the road. The house consists of two a...