Students of the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] at [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] have built a wooden structure for viewing the surroundings next to a lake in Zermatt, Switzerland.

Called Evolver, the structure consists of 24 wooden frames arranged
to form a tube that visitors can move through, travelling 720 degrees
around the structure’s axis before arriving back to the start again.

Views of the surrounding landscape are framed by slits between the supports.

Here’s some more information from the students:
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EVOLVER
Evolver is an architectural artefact intervening on the panorama surrounding Zermatt.
It was designed and executed by a team of 2nd year students from the
ALICE studio at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. In an effort to take
full advantage of the site’s extensive and astounding views, the
project sits strategically next to the lake Stelli at an altitude of
2536m.

Its structure mainly consists of a succession of 24 rotating frames
supporting an enclosed space that visitors are encouraged to enter. As
he or she progresses through the space, a concealed but uninterrupted
720° movement is unravelling along a transformed panorama.

This transformation occurs while inside a person is moving along a
selective string of openings only to be caught peeling off a sequence
of unexpected views from the original landscape.

Wobbling below and above a distant horizon, ground and sky have been
reorchestrated into an orbiting panorama by a journey that has already
culminated to where it started: A loophole on the skyline.


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Posted by Rose Etherington from dezeen.com