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Location:
Abandoned sandstone quarry with two mining craters. The location has in time become part of the village urban area.
Structure:
Building A - cube:
Reinforced concrete walled cube, thermal insulation, outside stone, inside wooden structure made of massive Finnish spruce timber 90x150, spruce ceilings, and oak floors
Building B - on supporting pillars:
The reinforced horizontal base slab is supported by eight vertical pillars 300/300 built into the rock. A wooden building is built on the base. The supporting wooden structure consists of six frames made of glued spruce bond timbers. Walls are made of double-sided sandwich made of massive Finnish spruce balks with internal insulation and supporting structure.
Suspended ceilings: massive spruce boards with distance joints
Massive wall balks are placed on the reinforced concrete slab, joined by running springs and secured by vertical steel tie bars.
Roof: titanium-zinc folded sheets
Building C - inside the reservoir:
Foundation on the reinforced concrete reservoir, from which protrude the plate supporting brackets. On the plate stands a wooden building made of transverse beams and glued bond timber. The peripheral construction, roof and other construction elements are identical with building B.
Connecting wings:
The bridging consists of rolled steel sections. Roof is made of wooden joists. Lining consists of glass glued into subtle stainless steel sections.
Report of the Jury
When a client gives to an architect a special site it is always a challenge.
For this house it was a quarry: a hole surrounded by little narrow cliffs.
Instead of a banal localization of the house, the architect took to the benefit of the house the more difficult part of the site: the cliffs.
The division of the house in three parts reflects the inner plan and the location of the house. Moreover the division gives to every part its own singularity and its own relation to the site and the view.
At the entrance of the ancient quarry, a long simple sheltered part is a car park and a protection providing the view of the neighbouring house.
The living room is the main part of the house with a large balcony, situated on the cantilever above the round void of the quarry. The entrance little part can be reached by a light staircase made of metal, which connects the second part of the house: the stone cube. The stone cube is divided in bedrooms on two levels. The third part dedicated to fitness can be reached by a glass part creating a bridge protected by horizontal sunscreens.
Even if the parts are different, the quality of this project gives to the whole a strong coherence with evidence and simplicity.
The jury noticed a very high quality of all the details of the house, which are never over designed but simple.