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Location: Herrliberg
Architect: Burkhalter Sumi Architekten
Photographs : Heinrich Helfenstein

The volumes of the individual buildings are staggered, both horizontally
and vertically. In this way they react to the sloping topography. At the
same time slender end walls are made that help integrate the buildings
entirely naturally in a spatial clasp between the development lower down
along Schulhausstrasse and the retaining wall of the upper plateau. As
a consequence the transparency of the former vineyard parallel to the
slope is preserved. Next to the owner's house there is an "annexe"
with library, workrooms and a large terrace.

When one takes a look outside the red glazed larch lining to the reveals
of the windows at the ends of the building work like a picture frame focussing
the view on the Glarner Alps further up the lake or on etliberg
at the end of the lake. In contrast the 10-metre-long openings of the
main facade are designed as panorama windows. The external concrete window
surrounds screen the immediate surroundings, directing the gaze towards
Lake Zurich and the range of hills behind it.

Unplaned large horizontal planks were used as shuttering for the exposed
concrete walls. The shuttering boards were placed by the building contractor
according to two principles: firstly, that the joints were to be broken;
and secondly, that the lengths of the boards were not precisely defined,
that they all lie within an initially determined range. This strengthens
the horizontal character of the shuttering and the handmade character
of the concrete wall.

The building envelope was constructed in a monolithic system using no
expansion joints of any kind. The interior is clad like a sheath with
insulation covered with white render. In contrast to the rather coarse,
cool exposed concrete of the facade here warm white tones from Le Corbusier's
Salubra series of colours are used. Together with the brushed oak floors
this creates an atmosphere that evokes Korean interiors.
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Photographs : Büro



TEAM
client: Mrs Doy Young Jeung, Zürich / architecture: burkhalter sumi
architekten gmbh, Zürich / staff: Patrick Filipaj, Damir Trakic /
engineering: Dr. Lüchinger + Meyer AG, Zürich / SHAC engineering:
3-Plan Haustechnik AG, Zürich / electronic engineering: Burkhalter
AG, Zürich / landscape architecture: Rotzler Krebs Partner Landschaftsarchitekten,
Winterthur / photo: Heinrich Helfenstein, Zürich
Photographs : Heinz Unger

Han Bit Housing images / text from Burkhalter Sumi Architekten Jul
2008
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