Bearth & Deplazes   Switzerland   The project starts from a conflict of interests: the budget, very limited, was enough for a duplex house with a studio. However, the void in the village called for a larger building. The first step is to divide the program into ‘expensive’ and ‘chea

Valentin Bearth Andrea Deplazes Bearth & Deplazes ETH Zürich   Switzerland   Up in the Alps of Valais, at an altitude of 2,800 meters above sea level, is a refuge for 120 people, a wooden structure covered with shimmering aluminum panels and incorporating a system of solar plaques that guarantee a high degree of energy effici

Andrea Deplazes Valentin Bearth   Switzerland   En la pedanía de Fläsch, al noreste del país, se emplaza la pequeña empresa familiar productora del exclusivo vino Gantenbein de fama internacional. Al borde de la suave pendiente de los viñedos se sitúan los dos edificios antiguos de dos pisos forma

Bearth & Deplazes   Switzerland   The popularization of winter sports since the Second World War has scattered the idyllic Alpine landscape with hotels, cabins, shelters and, most of all, small but abundant technical installations to allow the massive access of sport enthusiasts to t

David García Montes   Valentin Bearth (1957) y Andrea Deplazes (1960), formados en la ETH de Zúrich, fundaron su estudio en 1988 en la localidad suiza de Chur, muy cerca en el tiempo y en el espacio de las primeras obras que dieron fama mundial a Peter Zumthor, para quien