Oberriet, like many other built landscapes in Switzerland, is typified
by a multitude of different sized inclined planes, sloping in different
directions, that manage to achieve a remarkable visual and spatial
balance. It is the sloping roofs and their game of shadows and
reflections throughout the day that characterize the built space of this
place. In fact, at a perceptive level, the facades of the buildings
lose their importance, assuming the supportive roles of these great
inclined plans. The new geometry of the Jansen Campus has been generated
by this complexity of the ‘games of planes’. The internal landscape is articulated as a fluid space, almost as if it
were formed by an extension of the urban streets of the village, a
system of solids and voids expanding in all directions. The apparent
mass of the new building is dematerialised internally, flooded with
natural light teeming through the generous openings and the grand
slicing overhangs that project the users out to the landscape.
