P-029
Refuge
Completed
2025
Albula Pass, CH
Albula Pass Shelter
Altitude, m
2,315
↑
2,315
m
Built in 11 weeks between snowfalls.
Eleven weeks between the last snow and the first. Every beam came up by helicopter, in 38 lifts.
Built in 11 weeks between snowfalls.
Sheet facts
Typology
Refuge
Status
Completed
year
2025
Altitude, m
2,315
Area, m²
85
Location
Albula Pass, CH
01 — Brief
A shelter that twelve walkers can reach in a storm, heated by one stove and left alone for seven months a year.
No mains water, no road in winter and no caretaker. The building has to look after itself between September and June.
02 — Site
Road closed
Oct – Jun
Nearest quarry
0.6 km scree
03 — Build window & lift log
16 Jun → 1 Sep 2025
Each square is one helicopter lift. The stone plinth went up in the first fortnight; fog cost us most of week 4.
04 — Drawings
Drawing 02 — Section A-A · 1:100
05 — Photographs
06 — credits
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