Posted on 3/27/2016
The double house is an architectural oddity, a grouping that challenges a designer to simultaneously celebrate a social and spatial relationship with the world outside, while still preserving a sense of individuality.
The Villa Ensemble, near Zurich, exemplifies one such complex, multilayered brief. Designed by Andreas Fuhrimann, Gabrielle Hächler and Carlo Fumarola of Zurich-based firm AFGH Architects, the project is a miniature fiefdom rendered in raw concrete – two single-family houses atop a generous multifunctional concrete plinth.
The two houses replace a single house used by...