House with two courtyards
The House with two courtyards develops its meaning alone from within itself – without external references – and can only be fully understood upon entering. Two inner courtyards illuminate the house: the public rooms face the large courtyard, while the private rooms face the small one. This spatial concept allows the interior and exterior spaces to develop their own unique effect and meaning. The house is completely cast in concrete.
Alexander Mühlbauer
Visible appearance
The house is a concentration of three gardens, two of which only function as monumentalized landscape images and cannot be walked through. The Gardens are physical manifestations of a visible world as it is, and our action cannot make it quite different. The gardens refer to the universe and eternity in which man, instead of acting so doggedly on the visible appearance, would try to liberate himself not only to endure any influence on us, but to expose himself enough to discover the mysterious place to discover in yourself. However, the conditions also awaken the longing for civilization, which dares to venture somewhere else than what is measurable in its idea of space, its expression, its materiality and its culture. The gardens make the world more unbearable because it seems that everything that prevents the viewer‘s gaze from discovering what remains of the whole - the universe - seems to have been avoided once the false appearances are removed. Only the reduction to essential generative conditions awakens the strength and the longing to create great things.
Prof. Maurus Schifferli
