Underground Home

This amazing house has my name written all over it! Ofcourse the location is perfect, Vars lies at the end of a quiet valley in the Bündner Alps in Switzerland. The view is spectacular, and then the materials. The concrete, the wood, the way they piled the tiles and made stairs out of them. All clever and in harmony. The furniture is not completely my taste, but hey, I can bring our own. And then there's the fact that the house is built underground, but look at all the light inside! An amazing job!

Secretly I know another reason why this house triggered me so much. It reminds me a lot of Makka Pakka's cave!

From Underground Home Designs:

In underground home designs, this unusual house plan is the collaboration between the Netherlands architects at SeARCH and Christian Muller Architects. This underground home, located in the Swiss village of Vals, is set amidst a cluster of mountain houses and if you don’t look carefully you might miss it! The most striking thing about this stone house is the majestic Alpine view through a wide, elliptical opening in the hillside, revealing spacious outdoor entertaining areas that lead to the home’s main entrance. Another entrance from a nearby barn leads residents and guests through an underground pathway, providing an alternate entryway into the home. The circular opening in the mountainside allows for lots of windows, which flood interiors with natural light while framing the stunning mountain views. SeARCH and Christian Muller Architects.