{"id":280354,"date":"2025-11-13T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/280354\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:23:08","slug":"inside-new-glass-shelter-that-will-offer-mountaineers-refuge-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/280354\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside new glass ‘shelter’ that will offer mountaineers refuge | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A remarkable new glass shelter will offer mountaineers protection from high-altitude<\/a> dangers.<\/p>\n

The structure has been developed by designers in preparation for the 2026 Winter Olympics, where it will be displayed<\/a> in Milan before being transported<\/a> by helicopter to its final Alpine destination.<\/p>\n

The striking bivouac is the creation of Italian design company CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, working alongside Salone del Mobile.Milano. Built to blend seamlessly<\/a> with the Alpine environment, its development started with a 3D scan<\/a> of regional rock formations.<\/p>\n

Carlo Ratti, co-founder of CRA, explained: “Unfortunately, today bivouacs often look like airships that have landed on our beautiful alpine landscapes. Here we took the opposite approach: a structure that blends as much as possible with the surroundings.”<\/p>\n

According to CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, the final design reduces visual disruption whilst maximising practicality \u2013 featuring energy generation, storage capabilities, and water collection through atmospheric condensation.<\/p>\n

Maria Porro, president of Salone del Mobile.Milano, said: “It is a gesture that turns research into a form of harmony with the natural world and that, in its journey from our Milan to the Alps, expresses the principles we share: a circular, responsible design.”<\/p>\n

Carlo Ratti continued: “Great 20th-century Italian architect Gio Ponti once said that architecture is ‘like a crystal’. We took that literally in this design, using digital fabrication to design a bivouac as if it were part of the natural rock formations that shape the Alps.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A remarkable new glass shelter will offer mountaineers protection from high-altitude dangers. The structure has been developed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[127733,76,354,355,49,48,127731,356,75,3456,127732,6465,4046],"class_list":["post-280354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-alpine-environment","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cra-carlo-ratti-associati","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-europe","tag-glass-shelter","tag-holiday","tag-sustainable-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}