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warming huts constructed along winnipeg's frozen rivers

Warming huts is an open competition that encourages both established and emerging practices to design temporary structures to be built along the assiniboine river in the canadian city of winnipeg.

For 2015’s submissions, documented below, entries either fell into the ‘shelter’ or ‘installation’ category. read on for more information on each of the projects.

Using the concept of one-way mirrors and polished stainless steel panels, ‘mirror cloaking’ has been designed to appear as part of the winter landscape. the project, completed by the university of manitoba, plays with the idea that the enclosed structure allows visitors to find warmth within the vast open space.

Acclaimed mexico-based practice rojkind arquitectos were invited to build an installation in addition to the competition’s other chosen entries. named the ‘hybrid hut’, the complex timber structure invites skaters and other passersby to enter the pavilion’s relative warmth by ducking their heads to enter.

This design, by weiss architecture & urbanism limited, takes the portable hole as a starting point, and by utilizing modern paint technologies, adds color. a large, bright yellow void is horizontally located in a long snow drift that provides skaters with a warm and sheltering burrow. since they have both an inside and an outside, the holes also furnish the shelter with an abundance of light and sky views.

‘this big’ by tina soli & luca roncoroni (dorebak akershus, norway)

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  • Winnipeg, MB, Canada
  • rojkind arquitectos