Amazing view, still just nearby a city/town centre in a quiet residential area First impressions: ideal site yet still empty. Despite the low price of steep slope of the terrain does not allow a usual house and repels potential buyers.
This particular site was selected by a man, who looks forward to any kind of challenges and who as a client fully relied on our expertise. Despite out affirmation, he still believed he will have a house without compromises and went and bought the site. This man later client ,owner of the construction company became devoted builder. He was well aware of our work, we previously cooperated on some of our previous built projects. From the usual triangle client-builder-architect became a wonderful client-architect dialog.
Simple building volume is elevated into the free space by a pair of branching legs carried by a steel grate.The grate is touching the terrain at the point of access. These three bearing points can hold a lightweight timber building for a typical family.
This effective solution prooved to be also very effiecient and advantageous. The site is located in the Mountains where melting snow could potentially negatively impact the building form embedded into the slope. This also simplified the groundworks and waterproofing and improved the budget for other parts of the building.