Bauhaus concrete villa with core insulation - experiences

Great, still not my thing but a visual knockout. The panes look quite reflective, how do you solve the bird strike problem?

That doesn’t exist, at least no more than anywhere else.... it’s better to skip the glued-on plastic birds.

The windows appear quite reflective, how do you solve the bird strike problem?

I suppose in the case of the windows the birds have a problem, not the window. The rest is taken care of overnight by the fox. Very interesting and impressive house. Somewhere within the 150 pages you once wrote "we also had to make compromises." You do have some quite special things in there, for example your asphalt screed. Would you maybe say what you would have done differently if you had allowed the construction to cost 10% more? (I deliberately did not write "could spend 10% more" - that makes an answer all the more interesting).

The facade is not my thing, but everything else is just brutal!!!!

: no idea. A "normal" insurance does not cover that. Better to build reserves and have it replaced if there is ever a defect...

Bird strike should not be a problem. The panes are not mirrored. My mother has a large conservatory and year-round feeding. In the first year there were some hits. No longer now. Only when the young birds are on the move does one occasionally hit the glass. Rarely fatal.

: With core insulation it was not possible because of the glass system

The cast asphalt is not really more expensive. You save the screed and the covering. For that you need an underfloor heating made of metal...
We "bit" on some things like the glass system, the ceilings, etc. That definitely made it considerably more expensive.
What I would have done, for example, if money didn't matter (before construction started):
- Solid concrete. So thick that no insulation is needed. Ideally with a company from Switzerland. But after seeing the result now, I wouldn't consider it anymore.
- Property boundary. Retaining wall sunk into the ground and in the visible area with natural stone and corten steel. I once asked for an offer for this and politely declined.
- Possibly we would have made more glass parts motorized and movable.
- Installed shower WCs everywhere right away
- Terrace covering in a really large tile format
- Raiseable floor for the pool
- Flocculation system for the pool
- Elevator even bigger
- The kitchen would possibly be from another manufacturer
- Also plaster and paint the technical rooms on Q3 and install a floor covering.
- Insulated and (centrally) heated pool pavilion

Many decisions were also made with regard to maintenance. I don't want to constantly check, clean, refill here and there... nor do I want to have staff permanently in the house.
We already have much more than we need.

I am curious about the interior finishing and the furnishings (provided you want to show that). I just like everything about the project!

- What kind of kitchen do you have/get?
- Do you mean with "massive concrete" a kind of lightweight concrete that insulates and simultaneously has a structural effect? I read something about that a while ago from a client in southern Germany. He is also an architect and built his house with it. I think that's really cool, but unfortunately you also need a specialist/architect who knows about it. However, the walls then become very thick as well.

What I generally wonder is how the Swiss manage to do exposed concrete inside and outside so well and still keep it affordable (at least relatively). I’m thinking of the architects Marte Marte as an example. Who is actually your architect or is that a secret?