Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd.
Rheinschanze 6
4056 Basel, Switzerland
Email: info@herzogdemeuron.com
Phone: +41 61 385 5757
Riehen, Switzerland
The slope prior to construction.
Entrance on the basement floor.
Façade opening facing southwest.
The windows sit on top of the plaster like individual volumes.
A house that looks as though it was cut out of the slope with a knife.
The stucco-lustro plaster lives with the weather: southeast façade facing the garden. The movement of the sliding doors changes the façade. At night, the inside steps outside as an image.
A house thatâs like a crystal: the glazed inner courtyard at the center of the house.
The upper floor opens up towards the sun and southwest. The roof can be shut and turns the courtyard into an interior room protected from the climate.
Interior and exterior permeate each other: the transparent yard mediates between the different sections of the house. The biotope on the upper floor is turned by 90 degrees.
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