Inside the minimalist apartments, local quartzite stone is used for the kitchen tops, walls, and bathrooms (which turn into steam rooms and include tubs that are deep stone troughs). An open-plan living area has designer lighting, concrete and limestone, underfloor heating, and Cassina sofas, while the bedrooms (two or four) have storage cleverly hidden in untreated oak walls. Among the accessories are Catellani & Smith lamps, Alessi cutlery, and Schott glassware. Unlike most other European ski resorts, rocksresort is fully integrated, so you can purchase everything, even lift tickets, with your room card key.

An environmentally sensitive yet bold architectural concept, it is not wonder rocksresort won the 2010 Design Award in the Best New Ski Resort category by Wallpaper magazine. Several of the eleven structures are arranged around a central square at the bottom of a ski slope, while others nestle up to the edge of a nearby forest. Architects Domenig and Domenig, authors of outstanding commercial and private projects in and around Switzerland, have created a multi-use complex that defies categorization. There is no standardization here: the various outbuildings contain different guestroom and apartment-style arrangements, from two-bedroom suites to ten-bed apartments.