Monte Rosa Hut

A completely new building was inaugurated in 2009, a hi-tech, energy-wise almost self-sufficient, environmentally friendly mountain hut based on wood with an aluminium shell.

The hut can be reached using the Gornergratbahn; from the station Rotenboden a trail leads to the Gorner Glacier (blue and white paint markings).

A new hi-tech environmentally friendly mountain hut was designed by architect Andrea Deplazes of ETH Zurich and inaugurated in September 2009.

The five-story polygonal building was built on stainless steel foundations with a spiral interior made out of wood, the exterior being covered with an aluminum shell.

Bands of windows allow the sun to heat air inside the spiral building with the redistribution of thermal energy produced by visitors.

View on the new hut, opened in 2009, from the west side. On the left behind it the Lyskamm . More to the left, but outside of the viewing angle, is the Monte Rosa massif.
The hut seen from the direction of the Monte Rosa massif, behind it the Grenzgletscher (border glacier)
Old stone-based hut (1895–2011)
Inside the new hut
Panoramic view of the surroundings from 2010 showing (when enlarged) both the new hut and the old hut which was demolished in 2011, both left below the middle of the image. From left: Monte Rosa massif, Lyskamm, Castor, Pollux, Breithorn (see larger version with annotations in picture)
The hut in summer