Located in Hägendorf near Olten, House M is designed as a route around a private inner courtyard. A buffer to the busy road in the valley below is formed by the U-shaped volume that encloses an existing conifer tree. Three bedrooms in the south wing extend out into the garden. This wing is counterbalanced by the communal area: kitchen and open plan dining and living room that open onto a terrace and the private garden with its gently undulating landscape.
There is a freestanding hearth clad in milky granite in the communal wing, which visually separates the dining room from the living room and forms a clear vertical accent in the otherwise horizontal arrangement. A wide range of materials with warm textures are combined: oak, granite, brick, ceramic, glass and concrete. Textured planes of chalky brick on the external facades are interspersed with large oak-framed doors that open out onto the garden.
