Close to the Swiss-German border, in an area of three-storey apartment buildings of the fifties and free-standing houses of the turn of the century, a photographic studio was added to an existing two-storey house. Extending along the length of the back garden, the studio and the connecting corridor form two external spaces to the street, a car park and a garden. The east facing loggia contains offices and at its southern end forms a portico to the car park.

The pitched roof and trapezoid plan together form an internal space, with a perspective that effects and reiterates the programme’s theme. A pair of reinforced concrete beams support the roof structure and the north facing lights, recalling those of Le Corbusier at La Tourette (1957). The office wing is clad with a horizontal timber boarding. The studio’s east and south façades are clad with grained plywood boards. The west façade has bitumen sheets across the whole surface. Special hardwood corner details accentuate the pointedness of the building while covering the edges of the plywood sheets. The graphic treatment of the fence bearing the company’s name indicates an interest in the visualization of the building’s use.