Swisspearl Magazine #32

This issue reflects the diversity within our growing organization through the variety of unique and prestigious projects featured from across Europe and beyond. From the renovation of an award-winning residential building in Bulgaria to a sustainable school complex in the Czech Republic and an extension to a listed house in Slovenia, the growing trend for renovation and transformation is evident in our portfolio of projects. In our report we take a closer look at the story of the corrugated sheet in archtecture.

At Swisspearl we value Design. Collaborating with architects and designers inspires us, as seen in the "Dune" seating collection by Austrian designer Rainer Mutsch. Handcrafted from flexible fiber cement, its modular, curved forms create a striking, expandable system.

Light and yet stable, flat and yet rich in structure. Rather than aesthetic considerations, technical ones led to the shaping of corrugated fiber cement panels in the last century. The waves create a stable and load-bearing panel with a small amount of material. Today, the aesthetic qualities mean that corrugated fiber cement is increasingly being used to clad residential buildings. The perception of the material is gradually changing. For some time now, corrugated fiber cement panels have been appearing again and again in contemporary residential buildings.

When architects now rely on corrugated fiber cement panels, they are recalling these earlier unpretentious building structures. This new appreciation for unpretentious and everyday materials began in Swiss architecture in the 1980s. Materials with industrial connotations became more and more accepted in the residential sector.