Garden with far-reaching views

Next to the resi­dence, a modern new buil­ding, is an old vineyard house. The two houses are inha­bited by two gene­ra­tions of the same family. The special chall­enge of this project was the fine line between connec­tion and demar­ca­tion, old and new. The garden at the front towards the lake is a single unit and thus the connec­ting element. The entrances to the house and the cour­tyard at the rear are sepa­rate and ther­e­fore the divi­ding element.

Connec­tion and demar­ca­tion

The garden is a typical living garden. The outdoor dining area is inte­grated into the new house in the form of an open-plan living space, yet is gene­rously open to both sides of the garden. To the front, resi­dents can let their gaze glide over the front part of the garden to the marvellous lake view. The lake view was left gene­rously open, but bordered at the front edge by a plan­ting scheme domi­nated by roses. This means that the garden is not lost. The rear part of the dining area can be opened and closed with a sliding wall, crea­ting a privacy screen to the neigh­bou­ring plots behind the house if required. The sliding privacy screen can also be used to open up the view to the rear of the garden.

Old and new

The rear area was desi­gned as an inner cour­tyard. Round gravel, concrete slabs, small flowe­ring dogwood trees, orna­mental grasses, a small foun­tain, hedges and a wall can be found here. The hedges and the wall create a divi­sion of space and delimit the cour­tyard from the old house. The precise join­ting of the wall can also be viewed like a picture. The guber­stein used is an old Swiss stone, robust and hard-wearing, and stands for dura­bi­lity. Its appearance is nevert­heless time­less and bridges the gap between old and new. With the foun­tain, a calming, acou­stic element was placed in a shady spot that is not exposed, giving the space a distinct cour­tyard character.

Visi­bi­lity and protec­tion

The entrances to both houses were desi­gned in such a way that visi­tors are not unpre­pared in the garden. In the modern house, the driveway is already wrapped in green and visi­tors are led to the house via a long flight of steps. Only when you walk around the house do you reach the garden. The entrance to the older house, which is also used as a commer­cial buil­ding, was also screened off from the garden.

The combi­na­tion of old and new, inte­rior and exte­rior and the inter­play of archi­tec­ture and land­scape archi­tec­ture make the project a unique overall compo­si­tion.