CIAHAD 小屋丨瑞士丨Camponovo Baumgartner Architekten

Architect：Camponovo Baumgartner Architekten

Location：Arosa, Switzerland; | ;View Map

Project Year：2020

Category：Private Houses

The cabin CIAHAD is located in Arosa at 1’800 metres above sea level, with a great over the stunning landscape of the Grison Alps. The town is characterised by old mountain barns and by the contemporary witnes- ses of the early tourism movement.

The cabin is shaped by it’s ancient history and is a place to linger. An anecdote tells that once hikers sat down in front of the house as if it was a mountain restaurant. The building owner’s mother brought them drinks and left them believing it was a restaurant. The hikers were not completely mistaken though, as the cabin’s name CIAHAD, pronounced in English, means: «Come In And Have A Drink» indeed.

The former farmhouse was used as a holiday cabin back in 19th century. Through several renovations over the decades, new material layers and surfaces came onto the walls, without changing the basic woo- den structure.

We maintained the existing spatial structure, but we modified the room functions. The unheated kitchen was situated in the former pigsty, where now a granny flat with one bedroom, a bathroom and library is situated. The kitchen in turn was relocated to the centre of the house, where it originally was.

Two built-in elements articulate the rooms. They refer to the traditional ovens in the parlours of the Grisons. One built-in element is a soapstone oven that heats kitchen and living room. The other built-in element is the shower. Both of them form the building service installations.

The four rooms on the ground floor form an enfilade. Each room is two steps lower than the previous one. There is a horizontal line throughout the wooden wall panel that illustrates the different room levels as it goes through the house like the horizontal water level.

The wooden wall panel in the living room has been maintained in its original state. By using differently varnished plywood panels in the other rooms, we completed the maintained wall panel pattern in the living room.

The renovation revealed beneath every layer a part of the cabin’s history. On the veranda, for instance, the former exterior wall came to light, after we have removed the cladding. There, we discovered a window too. On the old parquet floor in the living room, we found traces of the nailed boots, where in the past people put them on by sitting down.

The renovation in this sense has revived the tales of CIAHAD.

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