Glärnischstrasse Küsnacht, Swiss housing, Architect, Lake Zurich homes, Image
Glärnischstrasse, Küsnacht Development
Contemporary Building in Switzerland – design by Burkhalter Sumi Architekten
11 Jul 2008
Double family house, Küsnacht
2002
Design: Burkhalter Sumi Architekten
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Photographs: Heinrich Helfenstein
These two projects on the Glärnischstrasse 2a and 7 in Küsnacht were built within two years of each other.
They illustrate the move towards increased density at present occurring in this popular residential district. The issues are therefore integration in the existing context, the grain and the sculptural design of the volumes.
Photographs : R.Zimmermann
The building consists of a recessed, plinth-like ground floor with garages, staircase and a small granny flat, the projecting upper floor with the studies and bedrooms and the attic level with the living and dining room, kitchen and terraces. With its freely hovering volume and an approach drive for the car below this house recalls Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier in Poissy.
However the recessed plinth in this project has a different significance: it expands the restricted outdoor space and thus enlarges the views. By separating the rooftop level into two parts an excessively large volume is avoided, and the two “humps” created also reveal that this building is a house for two families. The building changes its appearance according to the position of the sun and, despite the tight nature of the site, preserves the hovering character also found in the villa outside Paris.
Doppelhaus Küsnacht – Building Information
TEAM
client: private, Küsnacht
architecture: burkhalter sumi architekten gmbh, Zürich
staff: Yves Schihin, Barbara Ruppeiner, Katharina Mannhart, Elaine An
construction management: SAB Senne Bauleitungen, Uster
timber construction engineering: Makiol + Wiederkehr, Beinwil am See, Stefan Schlegel
engineering: Walter Neukom, Beinwil am See
SHAC engineering: 3-Plan AG, Winterthur, Reto Burkhart
electronic engineering: 3-Plan AG, Kreuzlingen, Livio Violka
landscape architecture: Stefan Hose, Landschaftsarchitekt
address: Glärnischstrasse 7, 8700 Küsnacht
CHARACTERISTICS TO THE PROJECT
construction costs (BKP 2): Fr. 1’740’700.-
construction costs (BKP 1-5): Fr. 1’897’200.-
land area: 805m2
cubature (SIA 116): 2’110m3
floor area GF (SIA 416): 670m2
main effective area HNF (SIA 416): 580m2
effective area NF: 327m2
construction costs /m3 (BKP 2): 825.-/m3
photo: Heinrich Helfenstein, Zürich (outside), Roland Zimmermann, Adliswil (inside)
Glärnischstrasse Küsnacht images / information from Burkhalter Sumi Architekten Jul 2008
Location: Glärnischstrasse, Küsnacht, Switzerland
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