Swiss villa fully embedded in landscape

Posted by Bogdan on January 4, 2010 | 1 Comment

In the Swiss village of Vals, two architects: Bjarne Mastenbroek and Christian Müller, developed a construction that doesn’t look residential, as the authorities demanded, but it’s still a very luxurious villa.
The access is provided via an existing wooden barn and trough an underground tunnel all the way to a cut in the mountain, which makes the entire structure presence limited to minimum.
Being built with local manpower, the project had the support of local authorities and it was realized [...]