Situated in Erkheim, Germany, this contemporary single family house was designed in 2016 by Alfredo Häberli.

Description by Alfredo Häberli
In the beginning stood an idea. The idea by Baufritz owner Dagmar Fritz-Kramer and designer Alfredo Haeberli to create a project together. Their joint question: ?How do we want to live in the future"? Their answers have gone into ?Haussicht? – revealing new dimensions of ecological and healthy wooden architecture.
The first obvious impression is the impact of the sheer size of the linked pair of buildings, with its imposing, far overhanging wooden roofs atop refined vertical structures. Is this supposed to be a home for just one family" Well now, it is, albeit a very special one ? not just in dimension. ?It was simply time to give a new face to wooden architecture, to create a trailblazing frontispiece?, explains the owner Fritz-Kramer, instantly adding: ?Such amazing stylistic expressiveness can only be found by a great designer.? At that point the internationally renowned Swiss architect Alfredo Haeberli came into the project. He says of himself: ?Since childhood architecture has always been important to me in everyday life.?
Silhouettes of nature
In his Zurich studio the floor plans and ideas evolved – for a wooden house completely reimagined. Inspired by ship building as one original type of wooden construction, the bowlike roof constructions run in waves and curves; organic ...