O House

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Project details

• Project Name: O House
• Location of Site: Lake Lucerne
• Architecture, Interior Design, Light Planning: Philippe Stuebi with Eberhard Troger
• Collaborators: Gabi Eichenberger, Sven Bestenheider, Christine Heimgartner
• Site Manager: TGS Architekten, Lucerne
• Landscape Architecture: Kuhn Truninger Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH, Zurich
• Project Type: Residence
• Date of completion: 2008

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Words from the architect

On both, the front and the lake side, this sculptural villa shows very expressive and ornamental facades. Facing mount Pilatus the white concrete elements are dotted with circular openings that allow glimpses into the two-leveled orangery with its exotic plants, as well as the lounge, the guest tract and the staircase accessed through one of the openings at the ground floor. The lake side with superb mountain views of the Rigi and the Burgenstock shows off a protruding, glistering loggia made of round glass bricks. Very decorative, such elements are a strong contrast to the rough renderings of the side facades. The basement nestles along the slope and opens into a large fitness area with a 25 meter pool, half inside, half outside, which is inserted in a white terrazzo plate. This terrazzo plate extends gracefully from the pool bar located inside along the boathouse made of white tinted, rough jetted concrete into lake Lucerne.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Photograph by Dominique Marc Wehrli, courtesy of Philippe Stuebi Architekten GmbH.

Credits

• Text: Philippe Stuebi, Eberhard Troger
• Photographs: Dominique Marc Wehrli