Czech firm mjölk architekti has shared with us their fascinating proposal "POLAR HEN" which was - under the title "ICE PILLOWS" - just recently named one of the five winners in the internationally acclaimed Warming Huts v.2011, An Art +Architecture Competition on Ice (...with one of the other four winners being Frank Gehry!).
For only one winter, the five winning huts will be created and placed on the frozen Assiniboine River in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
— bustler.net
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This seems adorable - and it's terraforming! - but how does one stay warm? Are there generators with heaters? It would be nice to know how the inside gets/stays warm and whether that system is integrated to the structural system.
Donna if the previous years Warming Huts are any indication they aren't actually outfitted with air/heating systems more like a rest stop/pavilion where the warming is based on fact you can get out of the weather/elements of the cold Canadian plains.
These sketches are great, they look like something out of an old Popular Science magazine.
cool my town is on the inter-tubes for its architecture!
@donna , theriver freezes over and snow is cleared off for skating on long stretch of it every winter. is cold but that is normal. the huts stop the wind, which is big difference. there is also hot chocolate down the way. nothing like skating on the river with a mug of hot chocolate at the end of the trip.
5468796 also did warming hut there last year that was quite coolio. very awesome that they got frank gehry to contribute.
Wow, Will, that 5468whatever website is awesome!
yeah totally. they got a lot of work going for a firm just a few years old too. rural canada seems to be a place to be lately.
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