Tenir Eco Hotels / Levelstudio

Tenir Eco Hotels is a modular glamping located 3200 meters (10’500 ft) above sea level, which makes it one of the highest altitude hotels in the world. The project was designed and delivered by Levelstudio in under 5 months, with the use of modular prefab construction techniques. Each 30 m² house is assembled from three 4.5x2.7x3.15 m sized modules, which were prefabricated by Sputnik Trailers at the company's factory in Almaty. The modules are made of a steel frame and aluminum sandwich panels with sustainable stone wool insulation, which makes them both rigid and well-insulated, responding to the earthquake-prone zone of the city and the harsh mountain climate. To deliver the modules to such a remote site, custom large sledges were manufactured, on which the modules were pulled from 12 to 45° degrees uphill by a bulldozer. Commissioned in July 2020, the project was finished and handed over by the start of the ski season in December of the same year.