A funicular station on a mountain in Italy has been converted into a museum with an adjoining restaurant that balances on stilts by Gerhard Mahlknecht of EM2.
The Lumen Museum of Mountain Photography is located 2,275 metres above sea level at the summit of Plan de Corones in the Kronplatz region of South Tyrol.

Mahlknecht, who is a founding partner at locally based firm EM2, was tasked by the Kronplatz mountain resort with redeveloping the site into a museum that celebrates the work of  mountain photographers from around the world.
EM2 previously worked for Kronplatz on the Messner Mountain Museum, where it oversaw the transformation of a medieval castle into a museum dedicated to man's relationship with the mountains.
The museum, founded by renowned mountaineer Reinhold Messner, comprises a network of six sites dotted around South Tyrol and Belluno, which includes a mountaineering museum designed by Zaha Hadid Architects located close to Lumen on the Plan de Corones mountain.
The Lumen museum occupies the site of a former funicular station ran, which was built in 1963 and ran until 1986 when it was replaced by the current railway. An extension added in 1974 provided residential accommodation and a restaurant that closed in the mid-1990s.
"The choice to build the new museum on the site of the old mountain station derived from the will of the client to repurpose this place for its special connection with landscape," project architect Stefano D'Elia told Dezeen...