From Thisispaper+ Alpine Houses
In the Rhine Valley near St. Gallen, Zurich studio kit builds Tower House from prefabricated spruce panels assembled in three days, its gabled form rereading the rural dwelling on a constrained triangular plot.
The Rhine Valley near St. Gallen is residential, agricultural and somewhat compressed. Plots are small, neighbours are close, village centres sit at irregular distances. It is not a landscape that tolerates overt formal ambition easily. Tower House by Zurich studio kit belongs here not because it is modest but because it is precise: narrow, gabled, clearly derived from the rural dwelling archetype and executed in a single material system. The prefabricated spruce panels, walls, floors, ceilings, were manufactured off-site and assembled in three days. Three days for the complete shell of a three-storey family home is not a construction shortcut; it is a different understanding of what building can be.
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