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Mountain Escape

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DINING AND LIVING, main floor - KATERINA KOLKOVA
LIVING AREA of the main floor - KATERINA KOLKOVA
VIEW FROM STAIRCASE, entering main floor, glimpses of the living(left) and guest bedroom /home office(right) - KATERINA KOLKOVA
DINING AND LIVING, main floor - KATERINA KOLKOVA

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Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
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JURY VOTES
House
6.36
6.84
6.21
6.46
6.47
Claudio Fiore Massenz
Claudio Fiore Massenz Sustainability Design Expert for the Built Environment at PVH Corp.
The house looks like part of its en...
7
7
6
7
6.75
Thomas Danet
Thomas Danet Design Director at Jones Lang LaSalle
A gorgeous project that truly succe...
8
6.5
7.5
5.5
6.88
Emily White
Emily White Experiential Design Lead at Deloitte Digital
6
8
7
8
7.25
Eric Ch
Eric Ch CEO at Still Young
6
6.5
6.5
5.5
6.13
Marta Nunez Anton
Marta Nunez Anton Associate Interior Designer at AECOM @ ID+S
Unique project in awesome location...
6
6
6
6
6
Gijs Baks
Gijs Baks Founder at Space Encounters
Comfortable and cozy. Ceiling feels...
6
7
6
6
6.25
Ying Sun
Ying Sun Senior Interior Architect at Spotify
7
7
6.5
8
7.13
Kajsa Krause
Kajsa Krause Design Principal at Champalimaud Design
6
7
6
7
6.5
Nicky Drobis
Nicky Drobis Partner at Fender Katsalidis
Beautiful timber that creates a wel...
6
7
6
6
6.25
Peng You
Peng You Co-founder and CEO at Benwu Studio
6
6.5
6
6.5
6.25
Huang	Jianfeng
Huang Jianfeng Founder and Creative Director at ONE-CU Interior Design Lab
6
7
6
6.5
6.38
Marianne Stroyeva
Marianne Stroyeva Senior Retail Design Manager at adidas
The chalet is luxurious, but it fee...
6
6
5
6.5
5.88
Stephanie Lund
Stephanie Lund Cofounder and Creative Director at toi toi toi creative studio
6
6.75
6
7
6.44
Matt Parry
Matt Parry CEO at The Future Collective
7
7.5
6.5
5
6.5
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Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Light
5.84
5.64
5.89
6.21
5.9
Claudio Fiore Massenz
Claudio Fiore Massenz Sustainability Design Expert for the Built Environment at PVH Corp.
Innovative cardboard lights and rec...
8
6
5
8
6.75
Thomas Danet
Thomas Danet Design Director at Jones Lang LaSalle
7.5
6
7
7.5
7
Emily White
Emily White Experiential Design Lead at Deloitte Digital
I agree with the comments about nat...
5
6
7
8
6.5
Eric Ch
Eric Ch CEO at Still Young
6
7
6
6
6.25
Marta Nunez Anton
Marta Nunez Anton Associate Interior Designer at AECOM @ ID+S
This project has a nice selection o...
5
5
6
6
5.5
Gijs Baks
Gijs Baks Founder at Space Encounters
Less is more....
6
5
7
5
5.75
Ying Sun
Ying Sun Senior Interior Architect at Spotify
Too many pendant lights in one spac...
5
5
5
7
5.5
Kajsa Krause
Kajsa Krause Design Principal at Champalimaud Design
5
6.5
5
5
5.38
Nicky Drobis
Nicky Drobis Partner at Fender Katsalidis
6
5
6
5
5.5
Peng You
Peng You Co-founder and CEO at Benwu Studio
5.5
6
5
6
5.63
Huang	Jianfeng
Huang Jianfeng Founder and Creative Director at ONE-CU Interior Design Lab
5.5
5
6
6.5
5.75
Marianne Stroyeva
Marianne Stroyeva Senior Retail Design Manager at adidas
The materiality is strong in this h...
5
5
6
5
5.25
Stephanie Lund
Stephanie Lund Cofounder and Creative Director at toi toi toi creative studio
7.25
6.5
6.5
7
6.81
Matt Parry
Matt Parry CEO at The Future Collective
5
5
5
5
5
Comments
Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Material
6.82
6.84
6.11
7.32
6.77
Claudio Fiore Massenz
Claudio Fiore Massenz Sustainability Design Expert for the Built Environment at PVH Corp.
High sustainability scores on the m...
7.5
8
5
8.5
7.25
Thomas Danet
Thomas Danet Design Director at Jones Lang LaSalle
8
8
7
8
7.75
Emily White
Emily White Experiential Design Lead at Deloitte Digital
I love the rawness in the materiali...
8
8
8
8
8
Eric Ch
Eric Ch CEO at Still Young
8
8
5.5
7.5
7.25
Marta Nunez Anton
Marta Nunez Anton Associate Interior Designer at AECOM @ ID+S
The materiality embraces as a conce...
5
5
5
7
5.5
Gijs Baks
Gijs Baks Founder at Space Encounters
The pallet of greys and woods work...
6
6
5
6
5.75
Ying Sun
Ying Sun Senior Interior Architect at Spotify
Appreciated the play and exploratio...
7.5
7
7.5
8
7.5
Kajsa Krause
Kajsa Krause Design Principal at Champalimaud Design
6
7
6
8
6.75
Nicky Drobis
Nicky Drobis Partner at Fender Katsalidis
6
6
6.5
7.5
6.5
Peng You
Peng You Co-founder and CEO at Benwu Studio
6.5
6.5
6.5
7
6.63
Huang	Jianfeng
Huang Jianfeng Founder and Creative Director at ONE-CU Interior Design Lab
7.5
6
5
7
6.38
Marianne Stroyeva
Marianne Stroyeva Senior Retail Design Manager at adidas
6
6
6
7
6.25
Stephanie Lund
Stephanie Lund Cofounder and Creative Director at toi toi toi creative studio
7.5
7.75
6.5
8
7.44
Matt Parry
Matt Parry CEO at The Future Collective
6
6.5
6
5
5.88
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Floor area
375 ㎡
Completion
2021
Budget
CHF 350,000
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Driving up the mountains, overlooking a gorgeous scenery of Swiss nature and cute stunningly preserved chalets, you end up in an authentic village of little Devils (Les Diablerets, altitude 1200 m). This new built projet has been conceived to fully reflect the authenticity of the surrounding context combined with the usage of contemporary materials and lighting. 

The choice of materials played a great role in this projet. As for wall covering, antique wood helped to create a spirit of mountain habitat. It was recuperated from some ancient dismantled chalets. The proportion of wood panels and ‘enduits à la chaux’ - lime rendered walls - is more or less 50/50. This particular finishing came from around 6000 years ago, and nowadays has become a true ecological solution for the construction industry, providing a great interior comfort. As for bathrooms, the combination of Micromosaic pieces (6x6mm) with contemporary looking black and bronze tiles was used to reinforce the representation of tradition and contemporary trends. 

All 3 floors are laid out to give a particular use to each area without any lost space. The ground floor is dedicated to sports, wellness and leisure time. Coming up the stairs and entering the main floor, there’s an all-around chimney architectural volume opening up a glimpse of the living area, serving as a space-defining element to separate the corridor from the rest of the living space. The chimney surrounding structure allows for enlarging the cocktail sitting place, while underneath it there is a generous log storage. On that same floor, there’s a square cut out volume from the inside part into the outside that brings 2 advantages: firstly it enlarges the terrace for a comfortable usage, secondly it delimits the dining area and gives a space of its own to the living area. 

Lighting has its own scale of importance. It cohesively exists with all the other elements of the space or else brings a particularly shaped source of light that reinforces the interior concept. In this regard the dining lighting reminds wooden texture, but is made of cardboard. All the spots of the house are pivotal surface mounted dimmable spots, which allows for their flexible utilisation. The ground floor has a different visual entity with large ceramic pieces in spa area (Piazentina stone effect), where windows are framed by extra large pending lights made of recycled plastic cords. 

Designed for a family of 4 this house was conceived to welcome friends and family on regular basis. Space optimisation as one of the basic design principals led to the creation of polyvalent rooms like a guest bedroom and a home office in one, divided by a 2,5 m long library that allows for a fine separation in-between the two. The home cinema living room is able to convert into another guest bedroom thanks to a wall mounted bed on the side. All furnitures were custom made and carefully designed to correspond to the maximum use of space.