La Haute Roche mansion

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The manor house "La Haute Roche" ( Manoir de Haute Roche ) is a country estate from 1912/1913 in Le Pont , a district of L'Abbaye in the canton of Vaud . It is classified as a cultural monument of national importance (A object).

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history

Maurice Buneau-Varilla (1856–1944), owner of the French daily Le Matin , came to Le Pont in 1911 and decided to build a country estate here. The architect François Hennebique (1842–1921) built the building based on the model of his own Villa Hennebique in Bourg-la-Reine in a location high above the Lac de Joux .

Building description

The building stands on an L-shaped floor plan, has three floors tapering towards the top and is covered with a hipped roof. The latter is probably due to the climatic conditions of the Swiss winter and does not really fit the avant-garde shapes of the building. It is characterized by the balconies that protrude towards the valley and on the side. The balconies and the roof protrude 2.50 m from the building without supporting columns or pillars . Rather, they rest on very slim consoles, which in turn are each one arm of a T-beam that stands in the wall and the other arm protrudes into the interior. This is due to the high tensile and compressive forces that occur with this type of construction. This reinforced concrete structure is typical of François Hennebique. Inside, too, the reinforced concrete enables large, column-free rooms, such as a dining room with dimensions of 10 × 12 meters. The even wider terrace in front of the ground floor, on the other hand, rests on pillars. The rest of the furnishings in the building were more conservative and even more committed to historicism .

literature

  • Colette Raffaele: Le manoire de Hauteroche. In: École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Institut de théorie et d'histoire de l'architecture (ed.): Matières 5 (2002). ISSN 1422-3449, Lausanne, pp. 110-114.
  • Ferdinand Werner : The long way to new building. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2016, ISBN 978-3-88462-372-5
    • Volume 1: Concrete: 43 men invent the future.
    • Volume 2: cement and artificial stone. The triumph of the imagination.

Remarks

  1. ^ Address: Le Pont, Rue de la Dent.
  2. ↑ See Swiss inventory of cultural goods of national and regional importance .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner, p. 203.
  2. ↑ Werner, p. 203.
  3. ↑ Werner, p. 204.

Web links

Commons : Manoir de Haute Roche  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 40 '4.8 "  N , 6 ° 19' 56.3"  E ; CH1903:  515338  /  169128