With winter sports at the doorstep, I thought it was just the right time to take a look at how contemporary design is affecting the forthcoming season’s top destination – the mountains. Beyond the commonplace notion of retrograde mountain lodge cosiness, in concept designs and in reality, there stands a new generation of mountain top buildings shaping up as we speak which makes not only humble protective sleep-over shelters but also full-range mixed-use and public buildings feel at home in alpine – and even harsher – conditions.
This is a guest post from Antonina of OpenBuildings - a community-driven and openly editable encyclopaedia of buildings from around the world.
Werner Tscholl Architects: Mountain Pass Museum
image: Werner Tscholl
ECHOROST: Wooden House
image: ECHOROST
ETH Zurich Department of Architecture: Monte Rosa Hut
image: ETH Zurich
Zechner & Zechner: Reisseck Top Terminal and Restaurant
image: Zechner & Zechner
ALICE Studio at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL): Evolver
image: ALICE Studio
Murman Architects: Restaurant Tusen
image: Hans Murman
LEAPfactory: New Refuge Gervasutti
image: LEAPfactory
Whitepod: Geodesic Dome ‘Hotel’ Room
image: Whitepod
Snøhetta: Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion
image: diephotodesigner.de
Ross Lovergrove Studio: Alpine Capsule
image: Ross Lovergrove Studio
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exdep December 21, 2011
there is one in Russia in shape of a space ship. It called “tarelka” http://bit.ly/tehUAY
antonina December 21, 2011
It’s cute and will be taken into account! Thanks!