DF DC hides Swiss apartment block behind Pisa Baptistery-informed concrete wall
Architecture studio DF DC has designed a concrete apartment block overlooking Lake Lugano in the south of Switzerland that has a concrete exoskeleton so that the interior spaces are free to change over time .
Named after its street, Via Carona 6 contains 14 private-rental apartments that are shielded from the road by a concrete wall that was informed by the architecture of the 14th-century Pisa Baptistery.
Top: Via Carona 6 by DF DC. Above: the building is located beside a rail track
Built on a Swiss hillside the five-storey building is located alongside a winding road and above a railway track.
DF DC completes Swiss L-shaped concrete home on edge of vineyards
18 February 2021 By Fran Williams. Photography by Simone Bossi
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Source: DF DC
Source: DF DC
London and Lugano-based DF DC has created a L-shaped ‘pyramid’ house in Locarno, Switzerland
The practice, founded in 2016 by Dario Franchini and Diego Calderon, has completed a 247m² concrete house at the end of a cul-de-sac between several detached houses and accompanying vineyards in Tegna, Switzerland.
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The house’s mass is pitched, carved out by the garage and folded roofscape, creating a pyramid-like form which is also L-shaped in plan.
Internally, a threshold contains a gym and garage, opening out to the lounge, kitchen and dining areas which look out to a garden to the south and west.
Monolithic concrete walls enfold minimalist Pyramid House in Switzerland
DF DC has used concrete to create a monolithic house in the town of Tegna, Switzerland, which takes cues from Japanese architecture and the surrounding mountains.
Named Pyramid House, it was commissioned by a family who wanted a one-of-a-kind dwelling that challenged the look of neighbouring houses while maintaining their privacy.
Pyramid House is enclosed by monolithic concrete walls
To achieve this, architecture studio DF DC designed a seemingly impermeable concrete structure that is devoid of any symbol of domesticity .
This echoes bunker-like houses found in Japan, informed by the client s interest in Japanese architecture, while also nodding to the mountainscape surrounding the town.