Marguerite Arp Foundation

Gigon Guyer Partner Architekten, 2008-14

Arp’s intention to erect ‘a type of gallery building’ on the property in Solduno in order to be able to present at least part of their joint collection has been handed down from 1965. Nearly fifty years later, in the summer of 2014, this plan was finally realized. Gigon Guyer Partner Architekten designed a building to accommodate an art depot and exhibition space that now fulfil current conservation standards. The new building is situated in such a way that the virtually unchanged ensemble of studio house and garden remains untouched. A ninety-m2-large exhibition space – whose clarity of balanced proportions creates suitable surroundings not only for Arp’s organic, elemental forms – is integrated into the compact cubic building with its surface of sandblasted concrete