Five years ago our studio has won the Warming Huts competition in Winnipeg, Canada. The main task was to design shelter for skaters on the worlds longest skating rink.

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Architects: Mjölk architekti

Location: Hardangervidda National Park, Eidfjord kommune, Norway

Architects In Charge: Luká? Holub, Jan Mach, Jan Vondrák

Area: 60.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Tomá? Tesa?, Radek Petrá?ek

Other Participants : Pavlína Müllerová, Libor Nejezchleb, Michal Hejzlar, Alessandro Nicolo, Lucia Horkavá, Jan Smetana, Vojt?ch Hejtmánek, Zden?k Rafaj, Ale? Rafaj

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Five years ago our studio has won the Warming Huts competition in Winnipeg, Canada. The main task was to design shelter for skaters on the worlds longest skating rink.

Concept

Altogether with ten other studios from all  around the world (including for example Frank Gerhy studio) we have spent one beautiful week realizing our competition proposal. During the implementation we were testing technology of building ice object only by spraying water on big air balloons shaped like balls.

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As a result we have created ice igloos slightly different from the typical ones. Our igloo creating device called Polar Hen made very thick ice shell characte...