After successful cooperation last year, when the students produced small pedestrian bridges to Krkonoše Mountains, the KRNAP Administration entrusted them with the design and implementation of six shelters for trekking visitors. These emergency shelters are used in the mountains at footpath crossings, but there is not enough of them and some are overdue. Two shelters will replace the ones in poor technical condition and the other four will appear at newly selected locations.
The Shelter project allowed a total of 29 students and 6 lecturers from the Institute of Design II of the Faculty of Architecture to complete the whole building process from a field survey through an idea design to a realization by their own hands during one semester. The students had the task of creating a shelter where tourists could relax or hide from bad weather. The only limit was the maximum size of 16 m² of built-up area and the price, which could not exceed 60 thousand crowns per one. The project started in October, when six of the 30 proposals were selected for implementation. Students had worked on them in six teams, while majority of them had to be erected during first two weeks of January.
The clumsy succumbing cove on the White Elbe stream will be replaced by the KØMEN. Inspiration of the concept were the ridge of the Krkonoše Mountains and the nearby Balvan Waterfall. The traditional form of the shelter was inspiration for the ATÜLN design, a shelter on the Klinova trail. Its dominant feature is a window in the front wall that offers a unique view. A raised entrance opening will allow access with thick layer of snow. The outer cladding is made of burned woodboards.
The OKO shelter at the Rýchorské crossing is adapted for year-round use on the busy hiking trail. Thanks to its large shutters, it can be opened in summer, and the shelters becomes a refuge for the winter.
