Country House in Lupsingen Village by Luca Selva Architects

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Located in Lupsingen village, near Basel, Switzerland, Luca Selva Architects designed a minimalist house which is set on a hillside on the outer edge of the Lupsingen residential area. The village consists of a small old center and a much larger residential area of single-family homes. This is the most popular mixture of remoteness and close proximity to the city center of Basel.

The building’s volume interprets the local building codes in an unexpected way. The code allows saddleback roofs and hipped roofs only. Luca Selva Architects opted for an undirectional volume and chose the hipped roof, to get the benefit from the diverse qualities of the village site.

The three glassed sides allow for cross-views over the interior of the living space and also extend the view out through the windows. The sliding doors also open the living space to an extent that the border between interior and exterior becomes blurred.

The building’s appearance itself is ambivalent. It is a body rather than a house in the traditional way. There is no distinction between roof and walls both are clad in slate. The entire envelope is the roof. There is no canopy and no gutter or rain pipes, the rainwater simply runs down the façade.

Via. Photography by Ruedi Walti, Menga von Sprecher

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