An Architect’s Holiday House in Valais, Switzerland

Swiss architect Laurent Savioz of Savioz Fabrizzi Architects has transformed an existing structure in the fields of Ayent, Switzerland into a holiday house for his family.

Originally built as a barn in 1882, the building was then transformed into a house in the 1980’s through the addition of a second floor before Savioz gave it a more contemporary make-over in 2013. In choosing to keep the layers of the small building’s history exposed, the original stone base, the bricks added in the eighties a