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Aita Flury Architektur . photos: © Ralph Feiner

The two new buildings in Aarau complete the permeable courtyard space of an existing school complex. The new, cubically simple and blocky structures show subtle sculptural modulations in their outline, which interlock the buildings with their encompassing space. The silhouette of the one-story kindergarten building is rhythmically structured by the different interior room heights. The two-story day care building (FuSTA) forms a type of frontage building of the stretched kindergarten building. Horizontally, deeply recessed loggias make the individual kindergarten units tangible. The exterior lined-up basic order on the inside mutates into circular spatial figures – the inside of the FuSTA even reveals to be centered. Continue reading Aita Flury

Aita Flury . photos: © Ralph Feiner . photos: © Ralph Feiner . + swiss-architects

Not only the name of the house is an allusion to the Villa Foscari La Malcontenta, rather its design is driven by spatial interests deriving from engagement with Palladio’s work. It is centred on a visual equilibrium of the volume, on the interlocking types between interior and exterior space, on the interweaving of wall and buttresses, and on a hierarchization of the facades, formulated as the reaction of the building to its surroundings. An additional essential concern lies in balancing the interior spaces. As in Palladian corridor-free systems, it is the square rectangles that are commonly related to each other. Continue reading Aita Flury