Single house for sale - 8400 Winterthur

When Mr. and Mrs. Wegmann returned to Switzerland from Japan, they built a house with Peter Märkli. His minimalism has always appealed to the Wegmanns. Peter Märkli, architect and emeritus professor of architecture, has conceived and built an exceptional work. Peter Märkli's architectural language is simple. Classic. Good proportions, good room sequences, good volumes, inner logic. His houses make sense. And they make sense because they make us aware of the essence and truth of buildings and spaces. Simplicity does not arise from omission, but from concentration and densification. Märkli's elementary architectural language is not only a constructive act, but also a meditative one. A masterly exercise in asceticism. The richness of the Wegmann house is harmony, tact, clarity. The view of the essentials is pleasant. The built antipode to the ubiquitous compulsion for design, deco, stylistic pluralism, statement is simply overwhelming.

A good life needs tact and volume

The synthesis of elementary functionality and metaphysics is Märkli's quality feature. Thus archetypes have emerged that create realities for a good life: Each of his buildings provides space for a specific way of life, working and being.

Tact and measure of the spatial structures are always human, because they are self-evident. Thus buildings have emerged whose essence is archaic, ascetic, subversive, monumental. They are all touching. If you have never been to the Hans Josephsohn Museum in Giornico TI, we recommend a trip to the Leventina: Look at the kinship of the architect's plastic creation with that of the sculptor!

The Wegmann House, iconic

Located on a south-southwesterly oriented slope in the best-located Winterthur Seen, it overlooks the landscape, towards the city in the east. The driveway is a large paved area that connects the garage for 3 cars with the building block placed lengthwise to the slope: Its facade, with the half-round arched windows of the swimming pool, allows the building to be read as a studio, a place of worship, a workshop. Anyone who has seen this house will not forget it.

A bronze relief is attached right next to the entrance door. An early sculpture by the artist Hans Josephsohn. A reference to the closeness of the architect Peter Märkli to the sculptor. This work is to remain, it is in dialogue with the facade.

Inside

Opening the prosaic entrance door, you stand directly in the high entrance hall. Space and quiet. On the left of the wall: the second Josephsohn. In the axis of the room to the right, we have visual contact with the swimming pool with counter-current system through the glass door. This room is also ascetic. With a strong effect due to the incidence of light and the color tending towards turquoise. On the wall a commission by the couple to the New York artist Lawrence Weiner. From the entrance hall, a double door opens further to the library with a work table - we are now in the residential block, which lies across the slope.

The setting of the two blocks protects the living area and creates intimate indoor and outdoor spaces. On the ground floor, high, harmoniously cut living rooms are lined up: library, living room with a room-defining, horizontally striped fireplace block. Dining room. On the back of the building: kitchen, washing, toilet. All floors in the living area on the ground floor are covered with light Turkish marble, in stark contrast to the concrete floor of the hall, which the architect refers to as "still public space". In front of these rooms: the stone-covered terrace with a Japanese-inspired garden.

On the upper floor with oak parquet, there are 4 bedrooms on the south side, in front of which a covered pergola is attached. On the slope side we find bathrooms, built-in wardrobes, walk-in closet. Basement: wellness area with hammam - steam bath - with a narrow skylight and whirlpool, shower, toilet. Large wine cellar and cellar. Look at the house. It will make you think.