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WT AltaQuota Award 2025

List of the winners and mentionated projects of WTALTAqUOTA 2025, International Award for the Architecture.

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First Prize
Fondazione BEIC / Onsite Studio SRL - BEIC European Library

A non-conventional library focused on storing and providing access to cultural treasures for the future. It serves as a laboratory aimed at developing the tools required to create contemporary culture.

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First Prize
Leap Factory - New Gervasutti Bivouac

This modular alpine pod offers resilient shelter in extreme environments, featuring photovoltaic power, weather monitoring, and panoramic views—all within a sustainable design that minimizes environmental impact for remote, high-altitude locations.

Second Prize
Peter Pichler Architects -  Oberholz Mountain Hut 

Perched at 2,000 meters in the Dolomites, features a cantilevered wooden structure resembling a fallen tree, with panoramic glass facades. Its curvilinear wood interior blends modern design with traditional alpine architecture, creating intimate, cozy spaces.

Third Prize
Progetto CMR - Bivacco Camardella

Smart and modern shelter that is a tribute to a passionate freerider and innovator in high- altitude mountaineering.

Special

BCW Collective - Bivacco Bredy

Designed by BCW Collective, is an aluminum-clad cabin in Italy's Aosta Valley. It honors late Alpinist Claudio Brédy, offering panoramic mountain views and a minimalist, immersive design.

 

DEMOGO - Bivacco Fanton    

Perched at 2,667 meters in the Marmarole mountains, this alpine shelter offers refuge amid vastness, harmonizing human experience with nature through a design that amplifies perception and fosters connection.

Stifter + Bachmann  - Sasso Nero

Perched at 3,026 meters in Italy’s Aurina Valley, Sasso Nero is a uniquely shaped six-story mountain refuge with shape inspired by wind erosion to withstand hurricane-level gusts while harmonizing with its rocky environment, featuring its copper exterior with panoramic views.

Best Selection WT SmartCity 2024 International Award for the Architecture Prize WT SmartCityAward 2024

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First Prize
Fondazione BEIC / Onsite Studio SRL - BEIC European Library

A non-conventional library focused on storing and providing access to cultural treasures for the future. It serves as a laboratory aimed at developing the tools required to create contemporary culture.

Second Prize
Covivio Development SpA /Progetto CMR - The Sign Milano

The complex was born as the redevelopment of a former industrial site from the 1950s, which acquires a completely new look, ideally in line with the cultural and creative ferment that characterizes the area in which it will be built.

Third Prize
Luxottica Group / Park Associati - Luxottica Digital Factory 

In pursuit of architectural excellence and innovation, transitioning from energy-focused to technology-driven endeavors. Retaining the site's original volumes and character, the intervention integrates contemporary elements into both the façade and interior spaces, emphasizing on construction quality.

 

Special Mentions WT SmartCityAward 2024

OFIS Architekti - Alpine Shelter Skuta

Situated below Mountain Skuta in the Kamnik Alps, this modular bivouac combines traditional alpine design with modern materials, providing shelter for climbers while minimizing environmental impact and ensuring resilience against extreme weather.

BUREAU - Antoine

A camouflaged alpine shelter reflecting Swiss tradition and the concept of precarious minimal living amidst the awe-inspiring alpine landscape.

BCW Collective - Bivacco Bredy

Designed by BCW Collective, is an aluminum-clad cabin in Italy's Aosta Valley. It honors late Alpinist Claudio Brédy, offering panoramic mountain views and a minimalist, immersive design.

Progetto CMR - Bivacco Camardella

Smart and modern shelter that is a tribute to a passionate freerider and innovator in high- altitude mountaineering.

DEMOGO - Bivacco Fanton    

Perched at 2,667 meters in the Marmarole mountains, this alpine shelter offers refuge amid vastness, harmonizing human experience with nature through a design that amplifies perception and fosters connection.

Premica Architects - Bivak Na Prehodavcih

Premica Architects transformed a World War I bunker into a modern alpine shelter, emphasizing sustainability and comfort, while respecting the surrounding wilderness and maintaining access via historical supply paths.

Miha Kajzelj - Bivouac Under Grintovec

A vertical volume placed on a minimal concrete basement. Placed as a landmark in a landscape of wide mountain plateau under mountain Grintovec.

Archaeus - Caltun Shelter  

A vertical volume placed on a minimal concrete basement. An off-grid shelter that offers sanctuary to a local mountain rescue team and anyone else who needs it.

Groupe H + Decalaage - Gouter Mountain Shelter

The shelter is completely self-sufficient generating thermal energy from melted snow and electricity from solar panels maximizing the use of available natural resources.

Bearth & Deplazes Architekten -  Monte Rosa Hut

The mountain refuge that reflects the light and landscape of its high-altitude environment literally thanks to its dazzling aluminum façade.

Leap Factory - New Gervasutti Bivouac

This modular alpine pod offers resilient shelter in extreme environments, featuring photovoltaic power, weather monitoring, and panoramic views—all within a sustainable design that minimizes environmental impact for remote, high-altitude locations.

Savioz Fabrizzi Architectes -- New Mountain Hut

Sustainable architecture for the Tracuit Mountain Hut. A vision for energy efficiency and comfort.

Peter Pichler Architects -  Oberholz Mountain Hut 

Perched at 2,000 meters in the Dolomites, features a cantilevered wooden structure resembling a fallen tree, with panoramic glass facades. Its curvilinear wood interior blends modern design with traditional alpine architecture, creating intimate, cozy spaces.

Thilo Alex Brunner -  ON Shelter 

A minimalist, sustainable alpine retreat celebrating the brand’s Swiss roots and first hiking shoe launch.

Studio EX - Pinwheel Shelter

This innovative bivouac, inspired by tent architecture, features a folded wooden and aluminum shell at 2,850 meters in the western Alps, honoring climber Stefano Berrone while embracing the alpine landscape.

Snohetta - Refuge de Barroude

Designed in a sober yet modern way to preserve the fauna and flora of the Pyrenees National Park.

Sennoner Tammerle Architekten - Santnerpass Hut  

It is a sustainable, galvanized-steel A-frame shelter in the Italian Dolomites, combining modern alpine design with wood interiors and panoramic mountain views.

Stifter + Bachmann  - Sasso Nero

Perched at 3,026 meters in Italy’s Aurina Valley, Sasso Nero is a uniquely shaped six-story mountain refuge with shape inspired by wind erosion to withstand hurricane-level gusts while harmonizing with its rocky environment, featuring its copper exterior with panoramic views.

Ice Age  -  Shelter3800 

A compact, durable, lightweight, and eco-friendly geodesic dome for climbers acclimatizing and is the last base before climbers venture up Mount Elbrus, the highest point in Europe.

OFIS Architekti  - Winter Cabin on Mount Kanin

Perched on Mount Kanin in the Julian Alps, Slovenia, this striking cliff-side cabin is anchored into the rock, combining resilient design with breathtaking views, offering climbers shelter and stunning panoramas of the Alps, Soca Valley, and Adriatic Sea.

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