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XTEN's Monika Haefelfinger on Swiss Technique and Resilience in Architecture Practice

2019-03-25T12:43:00-04:00

For this week's Studio Snapshot, we talk with Monika Haefelfinger about her practice, XTEN and explore the various aspects of a firm whose name and ethos is inspired by the film, Powers of Ten (by Ray and Charles Eames). In the movie, the observer can see how zooming in and out of an object will give you a completely different perspective. The X factor, or unknown variable, is their discovery of a sustainable solution that is very simple but yields very high results for the inhabitants.

Chasper Schmidlin and Lukas Voellmy discuss the design process for Muzeum Susch, a gallery built deep into the Swiss Alps

2019-01-25T09:27:00-05:00

Muzeum Susch, founded by Grażyna Kulczyk, is a new gallery in a remote town in the Engadin Valley designed by the young duo Chasper Schmidlin and Lukas Voellmy, who previously designed the Von Bartha Gallery in Basel. The original building, set on a sloping hillside, has always been integral to the community it is situated within. Prior uses have included a vicarage, a hospice, a monastery, and, in the 19th century, an industrial brewery building. Working with the existing geology of the site, Schmidlin and Voellmy have created a dynamic space that weaves its way through the mountain, tunneling into the existing building—paying homage to its past while creating interventions and new spaces for its contemporary future. Below, the two talk about their process and what they hope the legacy of Muzeum Susch will be.

#ArchinectMeets @lerichti

2018-09-18T14:38:00-04:00

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has affected their practice.

Social media has undeniably affected the way we perceive, interpret and share opinions about architecture today. Using our own account, @Archinect, as a site for image curation and news content, we wanted to ask fellow Instagram users how they navigated the platform.

We spoke to Philipp Heer (@lerichti), a freelancer photographer whose work primarily focuses on contemporary architecture in Switzerland and the neighboring European countries. His website states that his complete work can be found on Instagram, a profile he has kept active for nearly four years.

Archinect - Features

XTEN's Monika Haefelfinger​ on Swiss Technique and Resilience in Architecture Practice

Chasper Schmidlin and Lukas Voellmy discuss the design process for Muzeum Susch, a gallery built deep into the Swiss Alps

#ArchinectMeets @lerichti

XTEN's Monika Haefelfinger on Swiss Technique and Resilience in Architecture Practice