adaptive reuse

La Creta Farmhouse show the beauty of taking away

La Crêta Farmhouse shows us the art of taking away

The most profound thing Bard Yersin did to this 18th-century Fribourg farmhouse was strip away layers from an earlier renovation. La Crêta is an adaptive reuse project that proves sustainable design’s most powerful tool is restraint.

Ennenda Mill by Atelier Lando Rossmaier peels back the layers on an old building to give it new life

Reviving a wounded mill: Ennenda Mühle is restitched with care

At a former medieval mill in Ennenda, Switzerland, Atelier Lando Rossmaier begins with careful deconstruction, peeling back layers to reveal and renew the building’s original structure. The adaptive reuse project rebuilds the house using materials sourced within roughly ten miles, including local timber, lime and hemp-lime walls that help regulate moisture in the ageing masonry. Through this restrained approach, the once-abandoned mill is revived as a home and goldsmith’s workshop while preserving the character of its historic fabric.

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