The built area of the house is reduced to a minimum, with two small translucent sheds – one for cooking and one for sleeping – that sit on a monolithic concrete plinth and are brought together under the same roof.
The roof has two slanted surfaces clad with stone that generate a passive control system thanks to their form and thermal inertia, evoking at the same time the topography of Urubamba valley.
Located 3,200m above sea level, this modular glamping is one of the highest altitude hotels in the world, and was built in under five months. Each cabin is assembled from three modules made of a steel frame and aluminum sandwich panels with stone woo
At the top of the Schnals Valley glacier, at an elevation of more than 3,000 meters, an observation deck invites excursionists to climb and take in some breathtaking views of the Tyrolean Alps and abrupt landscape. Following the natural topography of
The building engages in a dialogue with its surroundings through strategically positioned windows and the facade’s irregular rows of pieces of local granite and gneiss. The very profound facade is formed by a loadbearing double inner layer, with its
The hotel sits in the picturesque Li River valley of Yangshuo, surrounded by the region’s characteristic karst mountain scenery. In this unique context, the project intervenes on an old sugar mill built in the 1960s, which had been beautifully preser
The new headquarters of Blue Ice, a company that designs and makes climbing and mountain equipment, is in Les Houches, a small village in the French Alps, close to the Mont Blanc. A wide roof marks the design, and follows the natural slope of the sit
On a hill, at the edge of a forest and on the grounds of an imposing vernacular timber construction housing the Catholic Community of Sisters, in the Austrian municipality of Laterns, stands a white house of bold geometrical forms. Resembling an ice
Abandoned for many decades, to the point of extreme disrepair, the Kulm Eispavilion in the Alpine resort village of St. Moritz – built in 1905 and used as venue of the Olympic Winter Games held in 1928 and 1948 – has been refurbished with two princi
Designed by Bernardo Bader and located in the picturesque Austrian village of Laterns, 1 kilometer above sea level, the Haus am Stürcherwald adopts the type and material quality of traditional farmhouses and the typical Walserhouse of the region, but
In the artificial landscape of the old aerodrome, the project proposes inhabited mountains – able to improve the environment and promote civic encounter –, exploring architecture’s capacity to subvert the dialectic between natural and built territory
Inspired in the water production process, the new building – with spaces connected by a ramp – is wrapped in an undulating glass envelope topped by an ETFE roof. A mesh covers the existing volumes to give the complex a unified image... [+]
A new building is located above the existing floor and reproduces the logo of the water bottles: a five-pointed star. Each point is directed towards an element of the environment: the river, the valley, the factory, the mountains, and the city. Part
After crossing a plant-filled bridge, a new entrance redefines the character of the historic plant; the proposal focuses on the relationship of the building with four elements: the environment, the water, the staff, and the visitors and clients... [+
Mount Chäserrugg is the easternmost peak of the seven mountains that make up the Churfirsten Massif. It rises up gently from the Toggenburg to the north reaching up to 2,262 meters, and becomes a steep cliff to the south, plummeting almost 1,900 mete
Perched high up on a hill close to the city of Anyang, in South Korea, the project is included in a plan developed in 1999 to revitalize the natural environment and attract visitors through a series of artistic interventions. The path leading up to t
In a corner of the Sonoran Desert (Arizona) is a house that wishes to go unnoticed, and manages to. First, it barely rises over three meters, so stands lower than the largest cactuses around. Second, it breaks up into three parts (living room, bedroo
Although when seen from the outside the building appears like a bold volume clad with plants, the inside is a luminous space opening on to views of the surroundings.
Located at 2,883 meters above sea level, in the Monte Rosa Massif of the Pennine Alps, is this mountain shelter, a fruit of collaboration between the architecture department at ETH Zurich and the SAC (Swiss Alpine Club). It is a unique construction o
Dreamlike but not at the cost of profitability, this high-density development distributes its close to 500,000 square meters in two soft volumes colonized by vegetation.
Sustituyendo unos contenedores prefabricados de carácter provisional, el proyecto concilia en un solo volumen de apariencia unitaria las necesidades de los esquiadores con las condiciones de la topografía y el entorno. El edificio se sitúa en el lado
There where the boundaries of the city start to blur, on one of the typical peripheries of the Ticino region, in southern Switzerland, a family house tries to emerge from the landscape by way of strong volumetric shifts. Just like a rock from the nea
Part of an agritourism project located in the foothills of the Laurentian Mountains, a Nordic horticulture farm has on its premises added four micro-refuges designed by the Quebec-based architecture firm Atelier L’Abri. Shaped like isosceles triangle
On a plateau close to the Jostedal Glacier, overlooking it, stand these wooden cabins for use by hikers, designed by the Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta to withstand the harsh climate conditions, including strong winds, of this mountainous zone.
Con motivo de los 150 años de la universidad ETH de Zúrich, el profesor Andrea Deplazes puso en marcha, como parte del programa docente, el estudio Monterosa. El objetivo era desarrollar y ejecutar, junto a treinta estudiantes, un refugio de montaña
