We search in our working process for a clear and unmistakable attitude. Our work is defined by a deliberate and stringent conception, shaping our buildings while lending them openness and legibility. Our designs are surprising and challenging – neither purely synthetic nor entirely natural – but move within the balance between artifact and nature. Through the conscious and continuous reduction of design tools – from concept to execution – the original project idea condenses into a controlled and precise result. At first glance, the seemingly simple forms reinforce the clarity of the design and create an architecture that gains strength through restraint.
We reinterpret archetypical concepts so that the unforeseen may emerge from the familiar. “The art of intervention” is not only a guiding principle but our intellectual compass – an idea that provides orientation both in detail and in the larger whole. Our formal language reveals our preference for the reduced, the essential, and the immediate. This attitude runs like a red thread through our work, ensuring coherence while placing each individual project at the center.
Research forms an integral part of our working process. We apply it on multiple levels, deepen it within the designs, and ultimately manifest it in the built result. Knowledge of materials and construction, coupled with an unbroken curiosity, drive our ongoing search for the appropriate form, structure, and application. Art – such as Minimal Art or Arte Povera – and nature are essential points of reference. Material aesthetics, the effect of light, and spatial order are central criteria in our work. Our spectrum of materials is broad: raw and untreated surfaces alternate with the deliberate use of color, while contrasts such as light and shadow, hard and soft, high and low are interwoven.
At the center of our practice stand architecture and urbanism – understood as a multilayered dialogue between space, human, and time. Our scope includes design, planning, and realization, new and existing buildings, conversions, renovations, as well as property development and design. This is complemented by a consistent engagement with materiality, context, and atmosphere.
Every project demands long-term and thoughtful planning and action – a careful weighing, probing, and realization. In this way, an architecture emerges that does not merely shape spaces but makes attitudes visible. Our buildings are calm and restrained, consistent rather than loud – guided by a perspective on the durable rather than the temporary.
Nathalie Rossetti, Mark Aurel Wyss