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The author and BCW architect Skye Sturm, with Skye’s husband and two local hikers, sit at the picture window at the front of Bivacco Brédy. Skye and architects Facundo Arboit and Chiara Tessarollo designed the bivacco. Located next to the Laghi di Dziule, it sleeps six in about 130 square feet and has a solar panel to recharge mobile phones.
Bivacco Claudio Brédy, opened in 2021, is one of many huts in the region named after climbers who died while mountaineering. It was designed by BCW Collective and built by Chenevier, with consultation from Roberto Dini, an architecture professor and friend of Brédy’s, seen here with other friends and family. They gathered at the hut to remember Brédy’s life.
In the 1940s, the Italian Alpine Club popularized the Apollonio, a metal shed arrayed with guy wires. The structure, named for the engineer who designed it, was tiny but could sleep up to 12. It remained the standard alpine hut for 40 years, and dozens are still in use. Leap Factory’s Stefano Girodo, who worked on Gervasutti, pictured here, calls it “a masterpiece of industrial design.”







