An Uetikon home embraces minimalism, mild, and its Swiss lake views

This Uetikon residence units itself aside from conventional Swiss housing. Designed by Mexican studio Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados (PPAA), it was conceived to ponder nature from each angle, its home windows framing the intensive views. On the similar time, the completely up to date house is a nod to minimalist structure, its easy, cubic volumes inviting mild into the constructing by way of giant home windows that look out in the direction of the encircling Lake Zurich vistas.

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The residence is ready amid bushes and neighbouring houses in sparsely constructed plots, and blends into its inexperienced context with two volumes that hyperlink collectively whereas taking within the panoramic views of the encircling nature. 

PPAA was based in 2018 by Pablo Pérez Palacios. The structure studio, primarily based in Mexico Metropolis, made positive that this undertaking will get ‘misplaced’ in its environment, remaining discreet, with clear strains and a pared-down inside design. 

The façade blends two key supplies, crisp concrete and heat, light-coloured wooden. Its up to date shapes function varied openings that improve pure mild inside and benefit from the location’s slope and placement.

The communal areas (the lounge, eating room and kitchen) are open plan, drawing the residents’ eye outwards, in the direction of the pure surroundings. The lake was the principle inspiration for the house, and the water component is referenced in a mirror pool function within the backyard. 

Inside, mild bounces off white partitions, creating optical illusions and blurring the strains between the indoors and the encircling panorama. In the meantime, the bedrooms are strategically positioned to lap up the lakeside views, and to attach with nature.

The home ‘takes benefit of its topography and presents breathtaking sightlines of the environment and most particularly of the lake. Its design maximises the views and creates a seamless reference to nature,’ writes Pérez Palacios.

Specializing in the encircling context is a trademark for PPAA, and an method they beforehand demonstrated with Echegaray, a minimalist Mexican dwelling that drew on its rocky terrain. The Uetikon home is PPAA’s first residential undertaking in Europe, and little question, the primary of many to return. 

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