Folio — Mountain & material
Building
with the
weight of the
mountain.
A studio of architecture rooted in the alpine valley — sixty thousand slabs of quarried quartzite, laid in courses, lit only by the narrow slots a wall will allow. Half-buried, slow, and quiet.
Material
QuartziteLocal greenstone, riven face
Method
Coursed slab15 mm × 1000 mm bed
Light
SlottedRecessed, indirect, dim