The mountainous landscape offers many people a sufficient amount of energy, labour and habitat. The mountainous landscape is the moust perservering landscape in terms of innovations. This is well-founded, because nature does not allow for all building options: unfunctional, unnecessary or nonviable acquisitions don’t prove themselves and will disappear again. En vogue trends don’t always make their way to the remote, sparsely populated mountains. This means that things well proven can compete better in the mountains than in the lowlands and this way a tradition is emerging more continously.

People from cities frequent the mountain range as a place of silence, solitude and a place of physical activities. Along with this comes an intensified and changing use of a formerly untouched nature. The well accessible or topographically most astonishing places are put under strong pressure, while more and more people from other valleys move away towards agglomerations.

Accordingly, sustainable architecture in this space means: gentle treatment of the existing and its basic qualities, respect for nature and its demands, use of local resources for construction and energy, creative handling of the attractive qualities of the mountainous region and last but not least: Creation of a econonomically viable environment, made interesting for the inhabitant.

As an architect one can contribute in that considerably.

Team:

Visiting Professor: Dipl. Architekt ETH/SWB Conradin Clavuot

Assistant: Dipl. Ing. Robert Maier