
- Project Type: Refurbishment, Extension
- Designer: Jan Kinsbergen
- Location: Switzerland, Seelisberg
- Year: 2016
- Size: 90 sqm
- Photo Credits: Georg Aerni, Rasmus Norlander
The spatial idea emerged from a comment the client made: it should be something light, something with columns.
The first model – a small cardboard model – had two columns: one in the middle of the façade, the other one on an angle inclined towards the existing building. With this model in my hands, I visited the engineer, Dr. Joseph Schwartz, at the ETH. We both agreed, that two columns were too many.
One would be enough – no, even better – half a column! Like this, a house with half a column has been developed in Seelisberg, Switzerland.