Totoro house - Wabi Sabi

• Prize
  Winner in Architectural Design - Residential
• Company/Firm
  Rossetti+Wyss Architekten
• Lead Designer
  Nathalie Rossetti, Mark Aurel Wyss
• Architect
  Rossetti+Wyss Architekten
• Const. Company
  ERNE AG Holzbau
• Photographer Credit
  Juerg Zimmermann, Zurich
• Location
  Gunzwil, LU
• Client
  private
• Project Date
  April 2023

Can the perception of imperfect beauty detach itself from finitude and endure?
It is a longed-for restraint with the approach of subtly juxtaposing raw, uncoated and imperfect materials and aging with patience, waiting for the patina, in the empty vessels, venerably calm and serene, far from high-tech and opulence. Totoro is site-specific, embedded and yet a pioneer and a signal for a densification that is not only of narrowness and of little surrounding space. Sparseness frees thoughts and purposefully stands out from the usual to give space to the occupants. The aspiration of the project reflects its longing for wholeness.