SPECTRUM
SPECTRUM is an installation proposal for the Winnipegs Warming Huts design competition that is held annually to be built on a frozen lake in the town of Winnipeg in Canada.
SPECTRUM proposes a pan cultural iconic form, built with adopted nomadic vernacular construction techniques to create a shelter that offers sanctuary from the elements while allowing the visitors to experience light and color filtered through the translucent ice. Structural materials take their cues from the winter surrounds of the Assiniboine River = Ice and Wood - creating a dynamic cast/mold sectional interrelationship between them. A simple twelve sided joist structure will be constructed in panels off site and brought to the forks to be joined to a base and a compression ring. Translucent ice blocks will be manufactured locally, tinted using a gradated pigment spectrum and placed within the joist to produce a color wheel in monolithic built form. The pavilion entry will be sited to the southwest with respect to prevailing winter winds and to capture the sun in its oculus during certain times of day - thereby creating a delightfully cozy prismatic panoramic experience for visitors that allows both exterior and interior perspectives to play.
