This amazing private residence located in Grimisuat, Switzerland, has been designed in 2017 by Tempesta Tramparulo.

Description
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-Fran̤ois Lyotard defined in his 1984 work The Sublime and the Avant-Garde as ?that contradictory feeling Рpleasure 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 Rh̫ne valley. To reconcile these contrasting impressions, the project has been finely crafted to create a frame for its inhabitants that magnifies the positives of the site, and eclipses the negatives. Contrary to what one might expect, this outcome has not been achieved by putting the family?s interests above all other considerations. Instead of copying the profile of several neighbouring buildings, with multiple storeys rising from a base to break the line of the mountain slope, the building extends along one level. This arrangement of rooms allows it to extend diagonally...