Architecture
Shapped by Its Setting
Peteracher draws its inspiration from the unique qualities of its location. The hillside setting, the orientation, and the sweeping views shape the placement of the three houses, as does the carefully balanced relationship between architecture and landscape.
The result is not a random juxtaposition, but an ensemble that blends naturally into its surroundings—clear in its stance, understated in its expression, and precise down to the last detail.
Three Houses One Ensemble
Chapf, Guldenen, and Limberg are three distinct houses that share a common architectural language. Their positioning follows the topography of the site, creating balanced visual connections, spacious outdoor areas, and a high degree of privacy.
Each house occupies its own distinct location within the ensemble. At the same time, the three houses are united by a clear design philosophy: carefully proportioned structures, a calm layout, and a consistent focus on light, landscape, and views. Designed by Oberholzer & Brüschweiler Architekten AG.
The House-Within-a-House
The slope supports the house. The basement houses the underground car park, mechanical rooms, and additional spaces—each firmly assigned to a specific apartment and accessed privately. An elevator leads from the underground car park directly to the apartment; the garden-level apartment also accesses its rooms via an internal staircase. Pathways do not intersect. This creates a distinct address on each floor.
Above, the apartment opens up to the landscape. The loggias are covered and integrated into the building structure—they are part of the interior space, not the facade. Distinct volumes instead of a single large form. Intimate houses instead of a complex. And floor plans modelled after single-family homes.
Restraint With Substance
Peteracher’s architecture is defined by clarity, balance and durability. Precisely placed openings, generous glazing and sheltered outdoor areas structure the façades and create flowing transitions between inside and outside.
Materials and colors are used with deliberate restraint. The focus is not on any individual effect, but on the harmonious interplay of proportion, light and substance.
The result is an architecture whose quality does not need to be loud to be palpable.
Open Space as Part of the Home
At Peteracher, the landscape doesn’t begin just outside the buildings. Gardens, terraces, and loggias extend the living spaces and create a direct connection to the surroundings.
The design of the outdoor spaces incorporates the natural topography of the property and extends it through a carefully composed sequence of private outdoor areas, paths, and landscaped transitions.
Each outdoor space has its own character—from the sheltered garden to the spacious loggia to the elevated spot offering sweeping views. Together, they form a cohesive landscape that connects the architecture with its surroundings.
Privacy Begins in Outdoor Spaces
Distances, changes in elevation, lines of sight, and landscaping are coordinated in such a way as to create secluded retreats.
The garden apartments feature particularly spacious private gardens—an open space on a scale rarely found in condominiums.
A Line Built to Last
Peteracher’s architecture does not seek quick effect. It is designed to endure: calm, precise, high-quality. Its strength lies in balance — between house and apartment, closeness and retreat, landscape and city, everyday life and exception.