The cryosphere describes all forms of ice and snow in the Earth’s climate system and is part of the hydrosphe- re, i.e. the totality of water on Earth. In the Alps, the cryosphere is found mainly as mountain glaciers and per- mafrost soils. The existence of the cryosphere in alpine areas indicates a cold climate all year round, which all- ows the element water to occur mainly in frozen form. Due to the cold climatic conditions, it bonds firmly with the soil and rocks and thus becomes a binding agent that forms solid matter from loose material. This phenome- non can be observed in nature in the form of permafrost and adapted for the production of building materials. The research phase finally led to the following hypothesis: Frozen water can bind loose material into a solid element. This makes it possible to form space that benefits from the surrounding conditions or is only made possible by them and at the same time is able to protect against them in the form of built space. The project arising from this hypothesis is intended to investigate whether and how a structure could be built in and with the cryosphere and to answer relevant questions about the construction process, durability in terms of permanence and maintenance, and the transient effect of various environmental factors on the building material. The resulting structure forms a space by layering, which depicts the layer-by-layer structure of permafrost and glacier. The architecture beco- mes an adaptation of the natural systems of the cryosphere, which combines natural and man-made structures and processes and thus creates somewhat of permanence within a constant system of change. The material shapes the space with its specific properties and the factor of time plays an important role in the construction and „buil- ding“ process. The structure is in constant change, which is completely subject to the external factors of influence.