Family Residence

In the 18th century, a new relationship came about between human society and its environment. The Romantic spirit looked to the mountains to find the sublime, an idea that Jean-François Lyotard defined in his 1984 work The Sublime and the Avant-Garde as “that contradictory feeling – pleasure and pain, joy and anxiety, exaltation and depression”. These words resonate in one’s experience of the site chosen for this family home.

The beauty of the view is breath-taking, and the building’s orientation is perfect. Yet its surroundings are marked by the sprawl of buildings typical of many neighbourhoods developing in communes like Grimisuat, close to the well-conserved natural landscapes found at ever-higher altitudes as well as the built infrastructure of the Rhône valley.
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PROJECT Family Residence
ARCHITECTS Tempesta Tramparulo
LOCATION Grimisuat, Switzerland
YEAR 2017
LEAD ARCHITECTS Antonino Tramparulo, Maurizio Tempesta
PHOTO Milo Keller