room in the Alpine farmhouses in our area-into a smaller utility room. Then we placed these rooms in the ground plan as pillars, layered above each other in section and interconnected from story to story with wide laminated ceiling panels. The exposed ends of the walls are held together, where necessary, with steel pins or cables.
ln this way, the two buildings are spacious and filled with light; the design also allowed for an expansive layout of rooms that open and close. Walking through the house means moving from view to view.
The presence of the solid timber is tangible everywhere, intimate and close to the body; gentle, silky and shiny, it radiates in the light.
The houses are now slowly drying out and the wood is shrinking. The stories will lose a little bit of height in the next few years: about two or three centimeters. But our windows, doors and stairs, the pipes for the plumbing and the built-in closets, all fixed in place as they should be, are prepared for the wood that contains them to continue moving.