Category: Alps

  • AlpHouse

    AlpHouse

    The Alps are characterized by unique natural and cultural landscapes. These have produced a wide range of characteristic building types, which emerged out of a long-term adaption to climatic and geographic conditions. Today they form an important element of the attractiveness of the Alps as a space for living and recreation. If we want to preserve and…

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  • IREK Integral spatial development concept

    IREK Integral spatial development concept

    Creation of scenarios for the future spatial development of the communities of Gossensaß, Mareit, Kematen, Sterzing in the South Tyrolean Wipptal, based on qualitative interviews with the various local stakeholders. The framework for IREK is an interdisciplinary INTERREG project in which the transnational (in this case Austria and Italy) interest of additional alpine land use…

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  • Lessons from Tyrolean Modernism I, II, III

    Lessons from Tyrolean Modernism I, II, III

    Series of articles for Archalp on three architects that shaped the entanglement of modernist design principles with vernacular building traditions in the Tyrolean Alps. Lesson I – Siegfried Mazagg and the Berghof in SeefeldAvailable here Lesson II – Franz Baumann and the Landhaus ZachAvailable here Lessin III – Lois WelzenbacherAvailable here

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  • Masterplan Gröden Gherdëina Gardena

    Masterplan Gröden Gherdëina Gardena

    The Val Gardena master plan draws a picture of the future of the valley. It represents a long-term planning tool for the municipalities and defines which goals of spatial development are to be pursued in the coming years and to be achieved together in the next few years. The plan not only shows the status…

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