Archello Awards · Winners Announced
Archello Awards 2024 · Winners Announced
Archello Awards 2024
Winners Announced
DR. LEVY-FRÖHLICH HOUSE
Dominique Marc Wehrli

DR. LEVY-FRÖHLICH HOUSE

Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH as Architects

The expressive volumetry emerged thanks to the special form of the plot and the requirement of the constructor to place a maximal volume on the plot. with the method of the hollowing out the room program and the sculptural building body became incorporated. the sketch development was a work of lining up the demanded areas to a movement going through the house: stretch, widths, narrowing, grinding out from mass to a coherent sequence of space according to the principle of the enfilade. each area remains its completely specific character in size and form (conical entry area with clothes and guest wc.,large cubic double-story entrance hall, triangular loggia as color area, double-story inside rounded library which is downstairs three sided glazed, etc.) so that when entering the house various and surprising, only in moving itself the opening space experiences occur. the basement consists of large washing concrete elements (white carrara marble ball with white cement) which are interupted by space-high glazings. the three-sided glazing of the library in the basement ist reflected. depending upon time of day and lighting conditions you can see the stored books or the reflected garden. the upper floors are implemented in bright lime finish and the glazings in nature-anodized aluminium.


This construction’s distinctive form is owed to the need to take full advantage of the volume’s layout, strictly marked out by town planning regulations, and thereby maximising the interior space. The general program requested by the client is resolved through a sequential plan, in which all the rooms are linked and each serves as an entranceway to the next. However each room has its own character, depending on its form, the materials used or its colour. The double-height entrance hall and library, characterised by its elliptic form, or the loggia, painted in pink, illustrate this trait. In the library, the facade is a glass mirror, which allows us to discover the garden hidden behind the books.

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