Strata Hotel was completed in 2007: a subtle volume of horizontal wooden larch sticks that peel off the building, run over it, and seem to grow out of the surrounding topography. In 2014, to the neighboring Residence Alma, a guesthouse built in the 1960s,  got rid of an underused pitched roof , a previously non-existent vertical circulation and the dwelling for the host family were added. Due to the immediate neighborhood of the Strata Hotel, the theme of the wooden stick was readopted: this time, two bands follow the geometrically complex volume, pushing behind and over the white existing cube and joining with the surrounding topography. The interiors benefit from differentiated external spaces, which open up between the building volume and the wooden sticks, light openings provide panoramic views and bring the sky deep inside the building - a variation on the theme.
In 2018, the building was again extended by 9
generous suites for family vacations and communal areas: the very steep slope was
unfolded and a new volume was positioned behind the existing one and the
addition of 2014 –.  The theme of the
wooden sticks was applied once more: starting again from the existing
topography this time they did not unfold into the roof surface – but were
designed to form the ceiling cover of the cantilevering entrance and parking
area: the thematic conclusion of the Strata-Alma-Paramount Alma. The strategy
of Strata and Paramount Alma is continuously followed-up: starting from the steep
terrain, the larch wooden sticks peel off the volume, form covered outer
spaces, are partially brought into the interior, then turn into the ceiling of
the access and parking deck to create an atmospheric and thematically coherent
space, which allows framed views into the surrounding mountain landscape.
Coarse spray plaster, large floor-to-ceiling windows and the slightly faceted wooden
strips define the external appearance.