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Elegant Bivouac Shelter Produces Water And Electricity
The 2026 Olympics will have a unique self-sufficient alpine bivouac shelter installed in the Alps.
(Self-sufficient bivouac shelter by Carlo Ratti)
The project is a collaborative work with Salone del Mobile.Milano, which is set to debut as an urban pavilion during the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan. After that, it is to be moved by helicopter to its permanent place in the Alps to serve as a safe resting point for climbers and trekkers. The main goal of the bivouac shelter is to become a structure that can work by itself in remote mountain areas.In fact, the one Carlo Ratti Associati has designed can source its own energy, collect its own water, and support basic needs without outside help. It is because the design team used digital technology to study the local environment and build the structure so it fits well into the Alpine setting. They started it with a 3D scan of real rock formations in the Alps, where the scan captured the shape, size, and angles of the rocks to help the designers understand how the natural landscape is formed. Using the data, they designed the shelter’s shape and structure to follow the forms found in the mountain rocks, which made sure the design would fit well with the ground and weather conditions.
(Via designboom.)
I love the idea of having a self-sufficient house that you can just drop wherever you want one. I read about it first in Childhood's End, a 1953 novel by Arthur C. Clarke.
Most people had two homes, in widely separated parts of the world... There was nowhere on the planet where science and technology could not provide one with a comfortable home...
Before Clarke, there was the solar-powered prefab house from Ring Around the Sun, by Clifford Simak, published by Galaxy Science Fiction in 1952.
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