Friday, 07 May 2010 00:00

The Monte Rosa hut

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I've been keenly waiting to see the finished Monte Rosa Hut in Swtizerland since I saw the first design illustrations, and the building is now finally finished. This Swiss mountain hut, a five-storey timber frame building on steel foundations, is designed to be 90% energy self-sufficient - it boasts an 85 square metre solar PV array with excess energy stored in "lead-acid accumulators". There's more details here and here. Photos courtesy of ETH-Studio Monte Rosa/Tonatiuh Ambrosetti.

 

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Lenny Antonelli

Lenny Antonelli is deputy editor of Passive House Plus. He also writes regularly for the Irish Times, and has contributed to a variety of other publications including the Sunday Times, the CS Monitor, Village, the Sunday Tribune amd the Dubliner. He is currently working on a radio documentary on Ireland's oceans. 

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