TRILOGY OF INTERVENTIONS ? FROM GROUND FLOOR UPWARDS:

© Stefan Wuelser

Architects: Wuelser Bechtel Architekten

Location: Zollikon, Switzerland

Lead Architects: Stefan Wuelser, Nicolaj Bechtel

Area: 178.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Stefan Wuelser

© Stefan Wuelser

TRILOGY OF INTERVENTIONS ? FROM GROUND FLOOR UPWARDS:Ground floor ? sculpture and collage
An expressive concrete sculpture standing in the middle of the groundfloor and expanding to different extents in different directions. It might surprise at firt glance by its sheer mass and geometrical complexity, but it supports the wooden ceiling, carries the loads of the upper storey, creates a fireplace and storage for firewood, zones the space in functionally and atmospherically different areas and characterizes the space with it?s materiality. With it?s mass it, above all, adds centre and weight to the house. The proportions and expressive shape are both, structural element but also sculpture. This shifts the perception of the new openness from a structural effort to a familiar side by side of elements.
© Stefan Wuelser

In order to cast the new concrete structure in a tiny house, the formwork and the pouring of the concrete had to be minutely planned. On the ground floor, besides the extensive formwork, there was only a very small passage for accessibility and the important vibration of concrete. On the upper stor...