Wildspitzbahn

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Scope of work

• Planning and execution of two spectacular mountain stations in the highest glacier skiing area in Austria at 2,800 m and 3,440 m.
• Form-giving steel construction and free-formed aluminium sheet cladding with large-surface elements and glass facades.
• Parametrically planned complete solution construction.
• Building envelope: valley station 1,250 m2, mountain station 1,620 m2.

Innovations / Challenges

• Very high altitude of site and extreme weather conditions prevailing.
• Complex envelope geometry.
• Hundreds of preformed steel and metal components, each one unique, had to be precision-designed, produced with pinpoint accuracy and assembled on site to the highest standards of perfection in a very restricted working area.
• Logistical challenge presented by delivery of material to mountain station site.