#flexiblearchitecture

Dismountable walls represent a cutting-edge evolution in architectural design, offering flexible, non-permanent partitions that enhance adaptability in residential, commercial, and office environments. These innovative systems, typically featuring modular glass panels, folding mechanisms, or sliding configurations, can be effortlessly assembled, disassembled, and relocated without compromising structural integrity or generating construction waste. Ideal for dynamic spaces, they support open-plan layouts, maximize natural light, and foster seamless indoor-outdoor connections, aligning perfectly with modern demands for versatility and multi-functional areas.

The SAFFAhaus was first exhibited in Bern 1928 at the first exhibition of the Swiss women, SAFFA. Lux Guyer was responsible for the overall architectural concept of the exhibition. She arranged the exhibition city as a strictly axially structured composition of hall buildings, which responded to the landscape and provided for landscaped gardens.

Following the SAFFA, the Aarau merchant Fritz Kunath acquired the exhibition SAFFAhaus and reconstructed it in the same year using the same reconstruction plan, section and façades, with the necessary technical installations (heating, plumbing) added. The house was laid in the still largely undeveloped flat area of the trapezoidal building plot. The garden design was initially similar to that which Lux Guyer had proposed for SAFFA, fragmented and divided into various areas.

A planning application for an extension of the SAFFAhaus was submitted on 3 March 1937, containing seven rooms, utility rooms and cellars. The task was to rebuild the rational and affordable house into a villa with twelve rooms. The formal Saffa construction and design elements of Lux Guyer were referred to and interpreted quite freely.