‘Ski Down the Roof’ Hotel Under Construction

Architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) have just revealed plans for their latest building to feature a ‘skiable roof.’

The company, which is behind the design of major projects around the world including Google’s new London HQ and the waste-to-heat power station in Copenhaghen which will feature a 600m long dry ski slope down its roof (below) and is due to open later this year , has gone for a similar theme in its design of a ‘ski out’ hotel in Switzerland.

The Hotel des Horlogers in the Vallée de Joux region of the Jura Mountains will have sloping terraces zigzagging down the front of the building allowing guests to ski from their hotel room doors, or indeed the roof, down to the ground.  The hotel seems to be designed for cross-country skiers.

It’s not the first ski-down-the-roof hotel design the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) have come up with. In 2011 they envisaged a bigger project in the Finnish resort of Levi, the 47,000sqm Koutalaki Ski Village (pictured above), which would actually have increased the resort’s skiable vertical for hotel guests, but that project has not been built.

By contrast construction of the Hotel des Horlogers is reported to be already underway.