Arctic
Design and architecture projects exploring extreme cold climates, polar settlements, and Arctic environments.
Arctic Coffee Table
A kinetic furniture design that transforms still metal into moving perception, using light, shadow, and wave geometry inspired by ocean currents.
Port Dikson
The northlands hold great potential, but because of the severe climate, sea infrastructure and cities are not developed. The revival of the Northern Sea Route, which is the shortest trade path between Europe and Asia, can become a starting point. Port Dikson will be the central base with ship repair, Arctic research centre and polar station support.
8 Degrees
Norway has a long intimate history and culture to its rivers and glaciers. As the world faces a slow but sure rise of sea levels due to climate change, glaciers are melting and the world will begin to flood with more intensity. As Norway loses its glaciers this structure will stand as the last glacier to survive the floods of climate change.ffffffffffffffff
ARC ARCTIC
The settlement will consist of a combination of sections in an arbitrary order. Sections completely protect the internal space from the external aggressive environment and provides all the necessary conditions for life. The sections themselves can exist separately and be self-sufficient due to the extraction of energy from the sun, wind and geothermal source
Seems like this project was driven by the overall plan-based form, and not by programmatic needs. While the symbology of every project is important, it needs more basis in the functions within to convince us of its inevitability.
Polar station.
POLAR STATION SOLVES THE PROBLEM OF RESEARCH IN ANTARCTIC BY THE ABILITY OF INFINITY TRAVEL AND USAGE OF SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES.STATION CONSISTS OF EXTERNAL ENVELOPE - GEODESIC SPHERE AND MACHINERY WHICH RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WORK OF THE WHOLE CONSTRUCTION AND INNER STATION VOLUME.THE INNER STATION STAY FIXED WHILE THE EXTERNAL SPHERE IS MOVING.
Cyberg Ice Arena
We decided to mix two main programs, combining the increasing popularity of eSports with the urgent need to address global warming. By proposing a self-sustaining, ice-producing arena, we've fulfilled the demand for innovative, flexible, and unique eSports arenas and offered a creative solution to the deteriorating state of the Arctic Ocean.
Arctic Seconds
The world is changing in alarming rate,so we must change well-known standards of architecture. Arctic in addition to climat changes and warming happening twice as fast as the global average definitely expect new understanding of building-how can architecture provide more than a temperature controlled environment that allows surviving in such extreme condit
Magnetic Colony: Sponge-Like Modular Domes for Arctic Self-Sufficiency
A shortlisted arctic housing concept clusters 3000 residential units inside bio-inspired domes powered by wind energy and internal agriculture.
ARC Arctic: Modular Domed Settlements for Ellesmere Island's Polar Extremes
A scalable urban ecosystem on Ellesmere Island pairs reconfigurable modules with multilayer dome membranes and hyperloop transit.
Glacierscraper: A Vertical Arctic City That Rises Above the Melt
On Ellesmere Island, a reverse-city typology lifts human settlement off thawing permafrost and stacks civic life above modular housing.
Ursa Major: Hempcrete Domes and Hydrogen Power for Arctic Settlement
A modular dome habitat built from carbon-storing hempcrete, powered by wind and solar hydrogen, designed for life at the edge of the ice.
Modular Extreme Habitat: Fractal Logic Grows an Arctic City from a Single Cell
Prefabricated octagonal modules, snow-block tunnels, and seasonal terraces form a distributed settlement that dissolves centrism in the Arctic.
Helicom Habitat: Hexagonal Pods That Learn from Penguins and Ice Floes
Robert Czajka's modular Arctic settlement uses biomimetic geometry, passive solar strategies, and hydroponic systems to sustain life at the poles.
Arctic Seconds: Hexagonal Modular Habitat for Ellesmere Island's Shifting Climate
A shortlisted entry for EHC Arctic reimagines polar settlement through ice-inspired hexagonal modules and recycled polycarbonate envelopes.
Life Line: A Self-Sustaining Arctic City Built on Euler Circles
Concentric circular zones organize work, leisure, and ecology into a living urban organism on the northernmost settlement on Earth.
Modular Arctic Habitat: Stacking Life, Work, and Play Against the Ice
A four-stage modular system designed by Jakub Kubicki proposes scalable, oval-shaped units for off-grid Arctic living.
The Seam: Architecture That Stitches Fracturing Arctic Glaciers Back Together
A movable habitat settles into glacial crevices, using frozen water as insulation to reinforce melting ice and prevent fragmentation.
Snowflake: Biomimetic Urban Planning for the Arctic Frontier
A radial settlement inspired by snowflake geometry deploys monorail transit, polygonal housing, and a botanical Snow Garden in extreme cold.
Helicom Habitat: Hexagonal Modules That Learn From Arctic Ice Floes
A biomimetic research settlement uses tessellated geometry and renewable energy systems to sustain life at the frozen edge of the world.
The idea of the last glacier is interesting, though not explored to its full potensial as the concept is not clearly translated into architecture in shape, properties or relationship to water. It is a strong comment on environmental challenges and rising water levels, but seams to celebrate it more than beeing the becon of hope we need now.