Single house for sale - 8400 Winterthur

When Mr. and Mrs. Wegmann returned from Japan to Switzerland, they built 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 position. Peter Märkli's architectural language is simple. Classic.

Good proportions, good sequences of spaces, good volumes, inner logic. His houses make sense. And they give meaning 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 elemental architectural language is not just a constructive act, but a meditative one. A master exercise in asceticism. The richness of House Wegmann is harmony, rhythm, clarity. The view of the essential is soothing. The built antipode to the ubiquitous compulsion for design, decor, style pluralism, statement is simply striking.

A good life needs rhythm and volume

The synthesis of elemental 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 living, working, and being.

Rhythm and measure of the spatial structures are each human, because they are self-evident. Thus, buildings have emerged whose essence is archaic, ascetic, subversive, monumental. They are all touching. Anyone who has never been to the Hans Josephsohn Museum in Giornico TI is recommended to travel to Leventina: Look at the kinship of the architect's plastic work with that of the sculptor!

The House Wegmann, iconic

Located on the south-southwest facing slope in the best location of Winterthur lakes, one looks over the landscape, towards the city in the east. The entrance is a large asphalted area, which connects the garage for 3 cars with the building block positioned lengthwise to the slope: Its facade, with the half-arched windows of the swimming pool, allows the building to be read as an atelier, a place of devotion, a workshop. Anyone who has seen this house will not forget it.

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

Inside

When you open the prosaic entrance door, you stand directly in the high entrance hall. Space and tranquility. To the left on the wall: the second Josephsohn. In the spatial axis 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 strong impact from the light incidence and the turquoise color. On the wall, a commissioned work of the couple by New York artist Lawrence Weiner. From the entrance hall, a double-winged door opens to the library room with work table - we are now in the living block, which lies crosswise to the slope.

The positioning of the two blocks protects the living area and creates intimate indoor and outdoor spaces. On the ground floor, over-high, harmoniously cut living rooms line up: library, salon with space-defining, horizontally striped fireplace block. Dining room. On the back of the building: kitchen, laundry, toilet. All floors in the living area on the ground floor are covered with light Turkish marble, contrasting with 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 narrow ceiling window and whirlpool, shower, toilet. Large wine cellar and storage room. Take a look at the house. It will make you think.