The building of the single-family house on Säumerstrasse is set along the topography and parallel to the edge of the forest.

The building, which can be read in the layout as two head buildings that are bound together axisymmetrically by a long overheight space, thus establishes two main axes. The first runs longitudinally through the building and can be read as a connecting element at its ends, where the more private spaces of the family members gather. The second, a type of light axis, invites the outside space orthogonally to the central living space.

The light mood of the forest and the color change of the lake thus become a daily spectacle through the adjacent terrace. This cross marks the central living space, which depicts the design essence of the project. The surfaces speak with a kind of forensic haptics, through which materiality is suspended in favor of a body and whose surfaces whisper a tectonic interpretation of the whole.

In the airspace at the level of the floor slab, the smooth plaster, which welds the first floor together and amalgamates adjoining rooms behind wallpaper doors, transforms into white-glazed concrete in a subtle caesura.

Jannik Weisser

This distinction of the attic floor is also carried to the outside in a homogeneous steel facade whose windows, behind a perforated veil, emphasize the physicality, while towards the street they grasp the private spaces. The tectonic play of the surfaces, which are in a constant dialogue between inside and outside, continues in the facade where different types of plaster carry the program to the outside through their offset composition between base and surface.

Hillside, Thalwil

Location: Säumerstrasse 32, 8800 Thalwil
Residential units: 3 units
Property type: Rental
Apartment sizes: 2.5–6.5 rooms / 88–375 m²
Status: Realized
Occupancy date: 2022
Client: Private
Architecture: HDPF

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