The formal principle and the idea are two inseparable parts.
(...) In a house of two floors, you find a stair. You wouldn’t consider the stair as the essential, but as part of the formal principle, an inseparable part. Considering it as the formal principle, then its landing can be a room, this room has a window and near this window, a bench. Then you say: “My grand-father, who is frail, will climb up half the stairs and, without anyone believing he is old and brittle, he will sit on the bench because the bench is there. He won`t tell anybody how painful it is to ascend this stair”. (Louis I. Kahn, La profession et l’enseignement, Ispahan, 1970)

Uhren- und Juweliergeschäft Bucherer, Bahnhofstrasse 48, Zürich
Provisorischer Zugang
Bucherer AG, Luzern
Direktauftrag 2016, † 2019

Watches and jewellery store Bucherer, Bahnhofstrasse 48, Zürich
Temporary entrance access
Bucherer AG, Luzern
Direct order 2016, † 2019

office haratori with office winhov, Amsterdam
Collaborator: Andreja Ajilec, Annina Gutherz
BlessHess, civil engineers, Lucerne
Photography: office haratori