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Han Bit Housing, Swiss housing, Photo, Architect, Design, Image
Han Bit Housing Development
Contemporary Building in Switzerland by Burkhalter Sumi Architekten
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.
Swiss Architecture offices
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 / information from Burkhalter Sumi Architekten
Jul 2008
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