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#RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS

BURIED HOUSE

Unobtrusively beautiful yet oh-so-clever, SeARCH and CMA Architects have managed to tuck a luminous home into the alpine hills in Vals, Switzerland, just a hop, skip and jump away from the famed thermal baths.

This project defers to the landscape in every way. It’s literally integrated into a hill, so the take-your breath-away vistas go undisturbed. By incorporating the same split stone of the thermal baths into the façade, the alpine landscape remains harmonious. Since the villa is nestled into an underground tunnel, it is thermally insulated and benefits from a ground-source heat pump. This light-filled hillside villa brings new meaning to the words ‘hole’ and ‘bunker.’

BURIED HOUSE

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  • Vals, Switzerland
  • CMA Architects