the works

Valéry Clavien wraps up our conversation with the detailed description of the works produced by the duo Clavien Rossier. From the starting conception to the final result, he goes through different programs, typologies, urban densities, in an interesting description of the most recent and important works they have conceived.

— Charrat House —

“The owner had this barn...the volume was too big for the money that they had, so it was impossible to make a renovation that included the all volume. The idea was really to cut everything that we really didn't needed and just keep the elements that are useful, for example the basement.
It cost in the end only 600 000 CHF, which is really nothing for this kind of house, not cheap but very interesting. The process was really linked with the economy and also related with the site"

— Two in one house —

“...the idea of the owner was to build a house for her and to add a little apartment for her daughter, that in the future had the possibility to rent it. So the program from the beginning was, ok how are going to make to give the project the quality of a single house but with two different programs, slightly different.
Depending on which place you see the project, you see your house. That's why we built in this iconic way, like a kid. You get this really simple shape and can find it on both sides of the same object.”

— Middle density projects —

"We had the possibility to develop in Geneva a series of three different projects on the same thematic that is middle density. It's in the surroundings of the town, it's not the density like usually in a town but it's also not like in a village. It's something that is in between, and there are not a lot of examples, it's not really usual this kind of architecture, this in between dimension.
We tried in each project to develop the idea of the relationship with the garden, with the trees and so because the quality of this kind of density is that you're not in town, you have the transports to the center but at the same time you have a lot of green around you.”