The compound is situated just beside a lake, high up in the swiss mountains at an altitude of about 1900 meters above the sea. The small village of Melchsee-Frutt is the top station of a skiing area, in winter only accessible by a small cable car . The crystalline building cubes mark the edge between village and lake. Hotel and apartments face the rough landscape scenery and seem to become a part of it: four monumental rocks floating on a crystalline basement, just like mountains up on a mirroring lake. Recalling Bruno Taut?s expressionistic ?Alpine Architektur? from the 1920s, the buildings are a optimistic statement of how architecture and nature can become a ?fantastic? whole.

© Ulrich Stockhaus
Architects: Philip Loskant Architekt

Location: 6068 Kerns, Switzerland

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Ulrich Stockhaus

Interior: Matthias Buser, Innenarchitekt, Zurich

Execution: Architekturwerk AG, Sarnen

Client: Frutt Resort AG, Melchsee-Frutt

© Ulrich Stockhaus

From the architect. The compound is situated just beside a lake, high up in the swiss mountains at an altitude of about 1900 meters above the sea. The small village of Melchsee-Frutt is the top station of a skiing area, in winter only accessible by a small cable car . The crystalline building cubes mark the edge between villag...