Peter Vetsch

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Earth house by Peter Vetsch
Earth house settlement Lattenstrasse in Dietikon
View of one of the apartments
The underground car park of the same settlement
Interior view of an earth house

Peter Vetsch (born March 14, 1943 in Sax ) is a Swiss architect who is primarily known for his earth house buildings.

Life

From 1950 to 1956 Vetsch attended the elementary school in Sax, then until 1959 the secondary school in Frümsen. Until 1962 he attended the agricultural school Cernier NE, which he graduated with a diploma. An apprenticeship as a structural draftsman followed in Winterthur by 1965. In 1965/1966 Vetsch worked in an architecture office in St. Gallen.

In the following years Vetsch attended the state art academy in Düsseldorf , which he graduated from in 1970. From 1971 to 1974 he worked in the architecture offices Krass (Düsseldorf) and Hasler (Zurich).

Professional activities

Vetsch has been running his own architectural office in Zumikon (Zurich) since 1974, and in Dietikon near Zurich from 1978 . Vetsch has been a pioneer in earth houses since 1974 . He is the only architect in the world to have built over 47 earth houses. In addition to the earth houses, Vetsch also builds conventional structures. He is primarily interested in ecological and environmentally friendly architecture.

Peter Vetsch has been making a name for himself with earth houses since the late 1970s. Using shotcrete structures, he creates building envelopes that enclose maximum volume with a minimal area and are therefore an ideal form for energy management . The buildings negate the right angle and overcome the monotony of traditional and normal building with spatial diversity. They are reminiscent of the organic forms of Antoni Gaudí and the buildings of Art Nouveau .

Web links

Commons : Peter Vetsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wagner, E. / Schubert-Weller, C .: Earth and Cave Architecture Peter Vetsch. Sulgen 1994, p. 10
  2. ↑ Homepage vetsch.ch
  3. ^ Wagner, E. / Schubert-Weller, C .: Earth and Cave Architecture Peter Vetsch. Sulgen 1994, p. 136
personal data
SURNAME Vetsch, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Sax , Switzerland