16 Nov Archaic simplicity
Minimalism, if followed without hesitation, can magnify the the power of the building and its surroundings and create spaces that have the same evocative capacity of poetry.
In transforming an old abandoned house in the Swiss Canton of Ticino, Wespi De Meuron Romero Architects decided that “the main target of the intervention was to carve out the force of the massive stonewalls and to gain this archaic simplicity of the volume of the historic building”
Archdaily article with text provided by Wespi De Meuron Romero Architects , photos by Hannes Henz