Bob Simon´s Work „Alpine Implant“ examines the development of high-alpine infrastructures under the aspect of design requirements. Their monofunctionality is questioned and a modern solution proposal for the generation of multifunctional usable spaces is generated, which at the same time integrates the needs of different alpine regions.

Avalanche protection plays a big role in the history of the Alps and has always had just the use of protection. Since the last century the mountains have been shaped to protect people from the constant danger, but this intervention into nature has always been a topic for engineering and never an architectural one. Conventional avalanche protection does not follow natural patterns found in the mountains which makes it easy to read as an artificial structure from a distance. By analyzing the principles of building in the mountain range, also from the point of the cost efficiency, I understood the need for modular structures.

Using much smaller modular elements which produce clusters, the single element does not need to have the same strength than conventional structures, but allow us with the use of computational design to array in a much more efficient way, informed by the terrain. This leads to interesting patterns which blend sensitively with the surrounding nature and vegetation.

By the use of different types of modules which can perform clustering and use snow as a building material, various spatial qualities can be generated to form an architecture full of possibilities.