"Snow doesn't look cold, it doesn't look as though it has any temperature at all. And when if falls and you catch those pieces of nothing in your hands, it seems so unlikely that they could hurt anyone. Seems so unlikely that simple multiplication can make such a difference." - Jeanette Winterson
At once extraordinarily beautiful and dreadfully cruel, to us inhabitants of northern lands, the physical reality of snow deeply penetrates our imagination and our sense of place. It shapes our memories, our stories, and our rituals, from the most mundane to the most wondrous.
"Sara Sara", in Japanese, is a sound of snow falling or drifting gently. The warming hut is a playful and curious engagement with the accumulation of nothingness that is snow. A wooden spine guides elastic ribs of fiberglass, which are clothed in quivering layers of mesh and warm-coloured translucent spheres. Like an awkward creature, the hut allows snow to collect and permeate its bubbly skin, its body readjusting to the accumulated weight. The interior space, in a constant process of re-discovering itself, is shaped by the weight of the fallen snow and the weight of its temporary dwellers. A suspended bench allows the visitor's own body to affect the body of the hut, providing a playful parallel between our physical presence and that of the fallen snow. The returning wanderer discovers a new yet familiar experience; a childhood dream of glowing colours and frosty crystals.
(From competitor's text)
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- Presentation Panel
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- Section
- Axonometric Drawing
- Axonometric Drawing
