LEAPfactory installs prefabricated ski school beside Mont Blanc — dezeen.com

Using a custom-designed structure suited to extreme conditions, Italian studio LEAPfactory has constructed a new building for a ski and snowboard school beside the highest mountain in the Alps (+ slideshow). Situated in the shadow of Mont Blanc, on the south-east side of the France-Italy border, the small hut provides a new reception and lounge for the Courmayeur Ski and Snowboard School. LEAPfactory, a team of researchers specialising in architecture for severe climates, used its latest modular construction system for the project – a prefabricated building kit known as S3.

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