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Swiss chalet style (German: Schweizerstil, Norwegian: sveitserstil) is an architectural style of Late Historicism, originally inspired by rural chalets in Switzerland and the Alpine (mountainous) regions of Central Europe. The style refers to traditional building designs characterised by widely projecting roofs and facades richly decorated with ...
Chalet-style house built by Swiss nurse Ruth Trummer in Hagere Selam around 1970 The Silver Beach chalet in Ranua, Finland in December 2007. With the emergence of the Alpine travel business, chalets were transformed into holiday homes used by ski and hiking enthusiasts.
Traditional Swiss farm and village house design depended on a number of factors including the local climate, type of agriculture, materials available, local tradition and location. Each region in Switzerland developed their own style of vernacular architecture to meet these factors.
Here are three of my favorite Alpine-style villages in Colorado. I see why some say Ouray is a slice of Switzerland in the US Ouray has many Swiss-inspired elements.
The house is in the Style Sapin, the Swiss variant of Art Nouveau. The chalet on the forested hillside near La Chaux-de-Fonds, is a large traditional chalet with a steep roof in the local alpine style, and is decorated with carefully crafted colored geometric patterns on the façade, with a design of triangular pine trees and pine cones.
The Monte Rosa Hut lies on the western side of Monte Rosa massif, on the place named Untere Plattje.It dominates the Grenzgletscher (Border Glacier) to the south and west, and further down the Gorner Glacier, and is surrounded by many four-thousanders, such as Nordend, Dufourspitze, Liskamm, Castor, Pollux, Roccia Nera and the Breithorn.
Swiss Alpine Club: Pennine Alps: Trient Hut: Swiss Alpine Club: Mont Blanc massif: Triglav Lakes Lodge: Triglav Group: Triglav Lodge at Kredarica: Triglav Group: Tschierva Hut: Swiss Alpine Club: Bernina Range: Tête Rousse Hut: Club alpin français Ville de Saint-Gervais-les-Bains: Mont Blanc massif
The growth of ski and mountaineering resorts in the Swiss mountains have caused the Swiss to become very sports conscious. Apart from skiing and mountaineering, Swiss-style wrestling (Schwingen) is still popular in rural areas. Sunday-morning shooting sessions and Hornussen (a kind of Alpine baseball) are two other traditional Swiss sports.