Soglio’s Villa

Soglio’s Villa

Soglio is a splendid mountain village in the canton of Graubünden, in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. It is characterized by an ancient core that preserves the features of an alpine location which is distinguished by eighteenth-century buildings, revealing an unexpected urban scale. In the garden of one of these buildings, amid exotic mountain flowers, a small residential intervention takes place. It engages with the scale and settlement characteristics of the location, anchoring itself to the ground with a wall from which emerges a polygonal concrete prism. A small tower on three levels, the ground floor of the house features the entrance, utility rooms, and a small studio. The living space is located on the first floor: it is carved out by loggias and it faces the sublime surrounding landscape. At the last level, the two bedrooms also orient themselves like eyes, framing fragments of the horizon.