GOGGLES? Check. Gloves? Check. Portable SkiHaus? Check. Made by European architect Richard Horden in 1991, the SkiHaus gave (rich) mountainmen the freedom to stay up.

Horden was skiing late in the high Alps – evening sun, the beginning of a starlit night, the twinkling lights of the village in the valley – when he decided that he wanted to build something that allowed him to stay. The result is the SkiHaus, a mobile Alpine hut or a so called ‘hard tent’.
The high-tech pod appears to just have landed on the slopes like some kind of insect. But the Skihaus can’t fly. It needs the help of a helicopter to get on the remote mountain peaks.
The all-aluminium Skihaus got the same frolic look that a lot of designs of that period had. It’s a shame that it isn’t yellow, otherwise it completed the Sony Sport series. It is self-sufficient. Telecommunications, heat and electricity are supplied by solar panels, wind generators and aerials fixed to the roof. Inside it is quite spacious with bunk and seats en even a small kitchen.

Since 2004 it is situated on the Swiss-Italian ridge, close to the ‘Kleines Matterhorn’ and is used as a shelter for skiers and climbers. Oh yeah, for $ 55.000 it is possible to get your own Skihaus on a mountain near you.

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