There are few things more satisfying than exploring the far-flung corners of the earth. However, both day hikers and long-term explorers know how important it can be to find decent shelter from bad ...

Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) has long been taking a fresh and creative approach to combining man-made structures with nature. This time around, the architectural firm has literally taken its work to ...

Appearances can be deceiving and at first glance, the small and stylish storm shelter at the base of Mountain Skuta, the third highest peak in the Kamnik Alps, appears vulnerable in its exposed rugged ...

Designed by Italian architects Roberto Dini and Stefano Girodo, the Luca Pasqualetti Bivouac is a prefab mountain shelter that was airlifted to the very peak of the incredibly remote Morion ridge in ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Count Henry Russell-Killough, the “hermit of the Pyrenees”, was not an everyday 19th-century man. From the 1860s ...

Slovenianarchitectural firm OFIS recently teamed up with AKT II engineers anddesign students from Harvard Graduate School of Design to create aninnovative alpine shelter. Located amid the harsh ...

A new art installation in the heart of the Italian Alps is encouraging visitors to “think like a mountain”. The Frattini Bivouac is located 2,300m above sea level along the Alta Via delle Orobie ...

Architecture studio BCW Collective has perched an aluminium-clad bivouac shelter for hikers above an Alpine valley in northwest Italy. The shelter, called Bivacco Brédy, is located in the Aosta Valley ...

Italian architects and researchers Roberto Dini and Stefano Girodo have built a prefabricated shelter, named Bivouac Luca Pasqualetti, on the edge of a mountain peak in Valpelline, Italy. Located at ...

Looking at pictures of the Bivouac Fanton, you might assume it’s something out of Dune. It’s sleek and simple but obviously very, very modern. The physics seem improbable – to say the least – and the ...