Living snow fences are designed plantings of trees and/or shrubs and native grasses located along roads or ditches, or around communities and farmsteads. These plantings create a vegetative barrier that traps and controls blowing and drifting snow.
The opportunity to take advantage of the Ieeward position of a snow fence is the precedent for this inhabitable hut. The-structure would be placed appropriately against prevailing winds to create an artificial wind break, collect drifted snow, and thus accommodate a weather neutral space for a shelter intervention.
The hut also evokes concepts of bur-rowing, plowing, and as a space for bodies it is a grotto deployed to en-able an experience of encapsulation and reflection. It is a minimalist refuge. Black void in white mass. It is designed as stark and uncomforting in order to elucidate on the natural phenomena that is occurring externally. Quite, insulated, it is an entropic navigation of the forces of nature that reveals a protected sanctuary for the evaluation of the age old relationship of man vs. nature.
(From competitor's text)
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