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Obereggen, Italy

Peter Pichler Architecture, in collaboration with Arch. Pavol Mikolajcak, won a competition to design a new mountain hut at 2.000 m in the Italian Dolomites.

The new hut contains a restaurant and is located next to the cable station in Obereggen, with a direct connection to the ski slope.

The cantilevering structure grows out of the hill like a fallen tree with three main branches creating a symbiosis with the landscape. Each of them is facing the three most important surrounding mountains. At the end of the branches, a glass facade frames the surrounding mountains from the hut's interior. The glasses' sloped roof shape takes its inspiration from typical huts in the area, while the branching roof and complex structural interior express a new and contemporary interpretation of the classic mountain hut.

The interior is defined by a complex, curvilinear wood structure that gradually fades into walls and creates so-called "pockets" for intimacy. The studio's interpretation of the classic "Stube," well known in typical structures of the area.