Evolution of the Form of Small Tourist Shelters in the Mountain Landscape – Selected Issues

Mountain architecture follows its own rules. Designers implementing standard designs try to create durable objects in difficult terrain, often from native materials, combining them with modern construction possibilities. Details are simple elements derived from function and location, supported by the technology of concrete, glass and light wood, they blend into the terrain or dominate. Mountain architecture is not only about monumental objects, there are also small shelters with a shape characteristic of the landform, less regional in nature, although derived from it. The search for the unique beauty of the landscape - all this proves that mountain architecture is not just a craft with defined boundaries, but a creative and unrestrained art.