P-021

Refuge

Completed

2023

Flüela Pass, CH

Flüela Weather Station

Altitude, m

2,383

↑

2,383

m

A shelter for instruments and the people who read them.

Frozen ground eight months a year. Nothing could be poured after August.

A shelter for instruments and the people who read them.

Sheet facts

Typology

Refuge

Status

Completed

year

2023

Altitude, m

2,383

Area, m²

60

Location

Flüela Pass, CH

01 — Brief

A station that keeps its sensors clear of rime ice all winter, with a warm room for the two technicians who visit each month.

The instruments had to start recording before the building was finished, so the concrete core went in first.

02 — Site

Snow, record

12 kN/m²

Snow, record

12 kN/m²

Wind, design

210 km/h

Wind, design

210 km/h

Road closed

Nov – May

Nearest quarry

2.1 km

03 — Build window & lift log

16 Jun → 1 Sep 2025

Each square is one crane lift from the pass road. The core was cast in week 1; the timber skin followed.

04 — Drawings
Section A-A
Drawing 02 — Section A-A · 1:100

05 — Photographs

06 — credits

Client

Cantonal weather service

Client

Cantonal weather service

team

Luca Tognina, Matteo Rossi

team

Luca Tognina, Matteo Rossi

Engineer

Peder Joos, structural engineer

Engineer

Peder Joos, structural engineer

Timber

Holzbau Casutt

Timber

Holzbau Casutt

Photography

Ursina Gartmann

Photography

Ursina Gartmann

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Sheet 08 — Enquiry

Reply within 2 working days

Tell us about the site.

Steep, remote, snowed in half the year? Good. Three answers are enough to start.

03 — What should stand there?

Chur 593 m — studio

Tiefencastel 851 m

Albula Pass 2,315 m — 1 h 10 by car

Contours after © swisstopo

Studio Chur

[Street address], 7000 Chur, Switzerland

Studio Milano

[Street address], 20100 Milano, Italy

Local time, both studios

22:37:44

CET · Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00

SESVENNA

© 2026 Atelier Sesvenna AG

Sheet 08 — Enquiry

Reply within 2 working days

Tell us about the site.

Steep, remote, snowed in half the year? Good. Three answers are enough to start.

03 — What should stand there?

Chur 593 m — studio

Tiefencastel 851 m

Albula Pass 2,315 m — 1 h 10 by car

Contours after © swisstopo

Studio Chur

[Street address], 7000 Chur, Switzerland

Studio Milano

[Street address], 20100 Milano, Italy

Local time, both studios

22:37:44

CET · Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00

SESVENNA

© 2026 Atelier Sesvenna AG

Sheet 08 — Enquiry

Reply within 2 working days

Tell us about the site.

Steep, remote, snowed in half the year? Good. Three answers are enough to start.

03 — What should stand there?

Chur 593 m — studio

Tiefencastel 851 m

Albula Pass 2,315 m — 1 h 10 by car

Contours after © swisstopo

Studio Chur

[Street address], 7000 Chur, Switzerland

Studio Milano

[Street address], 20100 Milano, Italy

Local time, both studios

22:37:44

CET · Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00

SESVENNA

© 2026 Atelier Sesvenna AG

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