A thousand meters above sea level, in a mountain area famous for its ski resort, a former mansion plastered in yellow was scheduled to be demolished. Rudolf Olgiati, a local architect who had been gathering together objects of the area’s traditional handicraft, offered to donate his collection on the condition that this building be recycled into a cultural center to house it. The operation has since salvaged only the construction’s perimetral walls, eliminating the entry, the springing lines, the prominent eave, and the external finish that earned it its name. The result is an abstract cube whose windows come across as simple square openings, covering up all traces of their frames, and whose interior space rotates around an eccentric thick pillar that supports each floor and is inclined on the top one to meet with the angle of the roof...
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