2024-12-22T09:15:51-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149951790/tour-norway-s-doomsday-seed-vault-deep-within-the-arctic-circle Julia Ingalls 2016-06-15T13:24:00-04:00 >2016-06-18T20:40:22-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/sy/sy13hgdak3i5p56n.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>What is the architecture of forward-thinking climate change? One example is the <a href="http://uk.archinect.com/news/article/71895/svalbard-vault-opens" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Svalbard Seed Vault</a>, which when full will house roughly 3 million different species of plants in anticipation of a future that may be hotter, drier, or simply climatically different than the one we inhabit now.</p><p>This video offers a rare tour of the three-vault, minus 5 degrees Celsius interior storage facility, which is located within a mountain in Norway in anticipation of rising global sea levels:</p><p></p> https://archinect.com/news/article/44216954/arctic-architecture-svalbard arcticarchitecture 2012-04-09T13:30:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cj/cjzi1tiepq8738eq.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Arctic Architecture: Svalbard is the first book in a series that will explore the inevitability of northward human migration, its impact on the landscape, and the possibility that sustainable architecture can accommodate human expansion while minimizing environmental damage. Additional volumes focusing on other Arctic locations are also planned. But your support for this first volume is critical.</p></em><br /><br /><p> I'm using <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/44216954/arctic-architecture-svalbard" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kickstarter</a> to raise funds for participation in The Arctic Circle, a residency for artists, architects, and scientists that takes place in the Norwegian territory of Svalbard. During the residency, I plan to explore the landscape and existing settlements and use that research as the basis for a book, <em>Arctic Architecture: Svalbard</em>.</p> <p> <img alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/r2/r2hsuqnwb0o4t9ta.jpg" title=""></p> <p> The book will include maps, diagrams, large-format photographs, and drawings that document the past and present, along with several theoretical projects that show how climate change might affect future settlement of this currently inhospitable landscape. Recent projects by Norwegian architecture firm Jarmund/Vigsn&aelig;s, as well as the "Doomsday Vault" in Longyearbyen, demonstrate how architecture in Svalbard is affected by geographic isolation and the extreme climate. I want to take these influences even further, exploring what the architecture of Svalbard could be like decades or even centuries from now.</p> <p> <img alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/cj/cjzi1tiepq8738eq.jpg" title=""></p> <p> With some scientists claiming th...</p>