WALLPAPER* ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY 2019: Swiss architect Leopold Banchini founded his studio in 2016. His pre-fabricated timber house in Geneva, Casa CCFF (pictured) demonstrates his independent...
As an alternative to heavy, concrete, sculptural houses often found in Switzerland, Banchini embraces DIY culture – as seen in the Casa CCFF, which employed economic materials and prefabrication to keep construction costs at a minimum.
Built almost entirely of wood and developed with engineer Marc Walgenwitz, the house was assembled in a few days by local carpenters. Banchini engages in a wider academic conversation about architecture, while ‘trying to define the meaning of our practice in a destructive capitalist society.’ As well as teaching at the HEAD Geneva and the Swiss federal institute ofin Lausanne , he is currently the head of the Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Yet the biggest lesson learnt as an architect so far? ‘Probably that life is more important than architecture,’ he says with a smile. §
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