sustainabilityPlate 479 · Zermatt, Switzerland

Monte Rosa Hut

A crystal of timber on a glacier, living on almost nothing.

2009 · ETH Zurich & Bearth & Deplazes · Europe

The chamber score

Le Lac de Come, climate / Alphorn echo

Traditional alphorn · Alps

A covered bridge should hear the mountain first.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The high-alpine hut, a prototype of energy-autonomous mountain architecture.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Monte Rosa Hut through sustainability — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Monte Rosa Hut was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.