Oct 21, 2016
Contextual Development of the SAFFAhaus
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Contextual Development of the SAFFAhaus
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Des Drei Leben des SAFFA-Hauses
Analysis of the life cycle of the SAFFAhaus and the changing context in which it inhabits.
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.
In 2003 the SAFFAhaus was deconstructed and ultimately moved to Stäfa after falling into disrepair. There was a requirement to use the Saffa house as a public attraction and for an educational purpose. It eventually became a parent-child centre which plays an important role in promoting and supporting families in their everyday education.
Lux Guyer designed the SAFFAhaus using a new prefabricated construction system, Holzbausystemtechnik. The so-called "patent walls" were storey-high solid wall panels, consisting of an inner pack of standing timber, covered on either side by rebated pushed-lying boards, and finished with exterior cladding shingles made of wood or asbestos cement and wood paneling or plasterboard on the interior. The timber system provided freedom to design flexible and open interior spaces and the development of a living idea, which was born from the pre-modern reform movements at the start of the 20th century.
The rational, prefabricated nature of the buildings construction provided and opportunity to disassemble the building in Aarau and reconstruct it in a new location after the original building suffered dilapidation. The SAFFAhaus had to be dismantled and stored until the end of 2003, until it was moved to a new location for reconstruction. The aim was to create the closest possible factory implementation of the original house, therefore using as many original components as possible.