Sils-Cuncas Settlement Design
Urban Architecture What is the relationship of the houses to the landscape? Sils-Cuncas is a group of houses. As in a village-Isola, for example, or, at a higher altitude, Grevasalvas the houses seem to be placed coincidentally in the landscape. In spite of their comparatively high and heavy cubes, they form a nearly romantic, somehow familiar building composition. Perhaps this first glance, this first impression formed by a person traveling by in a bus or car or on cross-country skis is not so wrong and, especially from an urban architectural and landscape design point of view, not so uninteresting: houses grouped together to form a settlement that under closer observation, upon second, more critical inspection reveals itself as an independent reflexive settlement structure. Perhaps this image of the hamlet is not so wrong since here in Cuncas, just as in any hamlet belonging to a past, traditional, non-tourist oriented culture, the buildings are also highly specifically oriented upon the topography.
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