Built on the site of a former family-run printing house, Mosso hosts offices and artisanal workshops across seven floors. Located in a rapidly transforming district near the Léman Express station, the building conceals a timber structure behind a discreet, industrial-looking envelope.
Its façade, arranged in a staggered pattern like a house of cards, combines fiber cement and photovoltaic panels to create a mechanical interface with the environment: regulating light, natural ventilation and generating passive energy. Assembled dry, the components openly reveal their fixings, playfully showcasing the building’s joints in a way that is both functional and expressive.
Conceived as a robust, bioclimatic and reversible tool, Mosso offers generous, flexible spaces around a single monumental timber column. Exposed technical systems and raw or reused materials reveal an architecture that is precise, sustainable, and joyful.