P-018
Agricultural
Completed
2022
Pontresina, CH
Alp Laret Dairy
Altitude, m
1,980
↑
1,980
m
Cheese cellar dug into the slope.
Twelve weeks, timed around the cows: dig before they arrive, roof on before they leave.
Cheese cellar dug into the slope.
Sheet facts
Typology
Agricultural
Status
Completed
year
2022
Altitude, m
1,980
Area, m²
310
Location
Pontresina, CH
01 — Brief
A dairy that turns 900 litres of milk a day into cheese, for three families who share the summer pasture.
The cellar had to stay at 12 °C without a machine, so the hill does the cooling: it sits four metres into the slope.
02 — Site
Road closed
Nov – Apr
Nearest quarry
On site
03 — Build window & lift log
16 Jun → 1 Sep 2025
Each square is one truck load. Excavation filled the first month, before the cows came up.
04 — Drawings
Drawing 02 — Section A-A · 1:100
05 — Photographs
06 — credits
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