What a Single Wall Can Do

architect Christian Kerez
project The House with One Wall, Zürich, Switzerland
written by Hubertus Adam

 

To radically exploit the potential of space can mean approaching each new design problem with as few preconceptions as possible and wrestling from it the one solution that will finally prove valid and compelling. In such cases, reality is not something that compromises the idea or contaminates it with the banal or everyday.