Roofing slabs Swiss 2

One of the striking features of the area round Belalp is the traditional covers for the roofs. The shed shown here illustrates the use of an amazing collection of different shapes and sizes of local rocks. These are mainly schist which has been very carefully placed to keep out rain and the extreme driving snow in this area above 2000 metres. The other photo shows the modern equivalent where sheets of gneiss are used along with metal ties which were absent on the older roofs. The comment which craftsman Urs Lippert made was "This is regular irregularity". Took me a while to work that out but now I see exactly what he means.