{"id":359409,"date":"2025-08-20T12:30:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359409\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:30:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:30:35","slug":"striking-red-steelwork-marks-transformation-of-1960s-liechtenstein-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359409\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking red steelwork marks transformation of 1960s Liechtenstein home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local studio Dominic Spalt Architektur has renovated<\/a> a 1960s house<\/a> to create a multi-generational home<\/a> characterised by red steelwork<\/a> elements in Schaan, Liechtenstein. <\/p>\n

The studio sought to transform Number 7 Bretscha through “minimal but precise interventions” that respect the existing structure while facilitating its use by three generations of the same family \u2013 parents, children and a grandmother.<\/p>\n

\"TwoDominic Spalt Architektur has renovated a 1960s house in Liechtenstein<\/p>\n

Contrasted against the white facade, a red steel spiral staircase<\/a> to the south of the property leads up to a balcony<\/a> framed by scaffolding-like beams and a corrugated<\/a> iron roof.<\/p>\n

“The scaffolding in front of the balcony connects the house to the garden,” Dominic Spalt Architektur<\/a> founder Dominic Spalt told Dezeen. “With its plants, it acts as a green filter for the rooms behind it, while also forming a new garden facade.”<\/p>\n

\"ResidentialNumber 7 Bretscha was designed to be a multi-generational family home<\/p>\n

In order to accommodate the three generations who live in the house, the studio created two separate apartments on top of one another, connected by an internal staircase.<\/p>\n

The lower-level residential unit, which is occupied by the grandmother and accessed via the garden, remains largely unchanged except for adjustments to colour accents and new openings for pipes.<\/p>\n

Upstairs, in the unit intended for the parents and their children, a series of simple alterations were made to the bedrooms and a dividing wall was removed to allow for direct access to the bathroom.<\/p>\n

\"RedStriking red steelwork marks the transformation of the home<\/p>\n

On the other side of the property, a set of red steel stairs emerging from two large overlapping stones serves as a separate entrance to the upper apartment and shared living space.<\/p>\n

Dominic Spalt Architektur created a large, open-plan living space, which includes a kitchen, living room and mezzanine, in the former attic for all of the family to use.<\/p>\n

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Windows were carefully positioned to allow natural light into the space and to frame views of both the garden and the Drei Schwestern mountain range.<\/p>\n

“One focus was on preserving the garden, and the spatial integration of a forty-year-old tree,” said Spalt. “The new living space now opens onto the garden and provides a direct connection to the treetop.”<\/p>\n

\"AtticThe original attic was converted into an open-plan living space<\/p>\n

By replacing the pitched roof of an existing single-storey extension with a flat roof, the studio created a terrace which can be accessed via a large sliding window from the upstairs living space.<\/p>\n

A red steel geometric pergola frames the terrace, while also providing a structure for plants to grow around.<\/p>\n

“The structure with the gabled roofs was intended as a spatial enclosure for the terrace, which will gradually become overgrown with plants,” Spalt said.<\/p>\n

\"GeometricA geometric steel structure sits on top of a single-storey terrace<\/p>\n

A simple material palette was used throughout the interior, with industrially manufactured plywood<\/a> panels lining the walls and ceilings. Exposed flooring was sanded and sealed with a gloss finish.<\/p>\n

The studio opted for a pale plywood finish in the living room, while a darker glaze was applied to the kitchen walls and a teal glaze was used in the bathrooms.<\/p>\n

\"KitchenStainless steel and glazed plywood were chosen for the interior finishes<\/p>\n

To optimise the space, a mezzanine was added above the living space, with a semi-circular cut-out to allow light between the two levels where the structure meets the kitchen window.<\/p>\n

“The mezzanine was conceived as an object in the living space \u2013 it divides the room and also provides additional space,” Spalt said.<\/p>\n

\"PlywoodA mezzanine level was added above the living space<\/p>\n

Other multi-generational homes recently featured on Dezeen include a duplex in Toronto with two units connected by a courtyard<\/a> and a “slick but not stiff” Sydney home renovation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Willem Pab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local studio Dominic Spalt Architektur has renovated a 1960s house to create a multi-generational home characterised by red…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,7931,126454,5224,126129,126130,1218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-359409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-houses","13":"tag-multi-generational-homes","14":"tag-renovations","15":"tag-sectionall","16":"tag-sectionarchitecture","17":"tag-steel","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115061104974023627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}