House for an art collector / Christian Dupraz Architects

House for an art collector / Christian Dupraz Architects

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“I would like a massive, safe and fragrant house like my childhood. I will make you a sheltered home like the ones I love. It is through an ongoing conversation between the architect and the client that the realization of this house was realized. On an exceptional site, on the edge of the center of Geneva, this white house, with pure geometry, is part of itself. If the square plan is the basis of its composition, it surprises with its malleability and functional complexity.

The central staircase sets the tone for the vertical distribution; it is the vital object which distributes all the pieces in a composition game close to Adolf Loos’ Raumplan. By the offset of the plan and the biased position of the ridge, combined with the affirmation of two identical gables, the house offers astonishing variations of form on the facade. The multiple window frames of varying sizes situate the house in a contemporary reinterpretation of a certain tradition.