Designed by Tomas Ghisellini Architetto, the proposal for the new “Malga Fosse” refuge, which won an honorable mention, chooses the language of the rough and simple local construction scattered among the mountains. In doing so, their design builds up the impression of an old archetypal building surrounded by valleys and peaks of great beauty. Aimed at being an unforgettable place right in the heart of the Dolomites, the old is here replaced by a fascinating and iconic architectural body. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The existing volume, in bad conditions of conservation, suitably recoverable only through too much expensive repairs, is completely removed and reused in building the constituent parts of the new intervention. The design redraws the outline of a contemporary “hut” at high altitudes. Quoting in a rather veiled the oldest built trick for the occupation of the mountains, the new building redistributes the available volumes and reshapes them into a thin and transparent body that gets pure and meaningful architectural forms.
