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The document describes Peter Zumthor's Neues Atelier, an office building completed in 2016 in Haldenstein, Switzerland. It discusses how the building aims to fit harmoniously into its surroundings through its natural materials, balanced forms and spaces, and ability to make inhabitants and visitors feel at home. Photos show the building's wooden exterior and interior rooms with wood details that provide a warm, casual atmosphere.

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11/10/23, 1:52 PM Neues Atelier by Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partner AG (667AR) — Atlas of Places

Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partner AG 667 AR

Neues Atelier
2011–2016

Martin Heidegger gave the title “Bauen, Wohnen, Denken” (“Building, Dwelling,
Thinking”) to an essay with his reflections on what it means when men build
homes and live in specific places. Building, dwelling, and thinking are activities
which belong together and which men use as ways to learn about and be part
of the world. Heidegger observed that our thinking, as abstract as it may seem,
is closely connected with our experience of place. This has something to do
with the fact that man exists in places, that it is from places that he forms his
relationships with the world – or simply, that he lives in the world.

[…]

I am impressed by the natural, self-evident presence of an ensemble that rings

true, a milieu or a room that fits. Did the harmony between the work of nature
and the work of man, the interplay between density, lightness and void,
between sounds and smells, light and shade, materials and forms occur
naturally or was it carefully composed? The casual passer-by, inhabitant or
stroller, who could be me, is not concerned with such questions. He is
concerned with houses and spaces that fit, that blend with their surroundings
and are attuned to their use. He is concerned with places and houses that make
him feel at home, that leave him free to live in peace while giving him
inconspicuous support, that make him look good, and that charm him with
unexpected attributes.

I like the idea that the house I build contributes to the atmospheric density of a
place, a place which its inhabitants and passers-by will remember with
pleasure.