Art Suite / Cube ³ @ Ice Hotel

63, Marknadsvägen, Kiruna N, Norrbotten County, Sweden

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Art Suite / Cube ³ @ Ice Hotel

63, Marknadsvägen, Kiruna N, Norrbotten County, Sweden

Type

Hospitality + Sport › Hotel

YEAR

2012

The concept we decided to explore is the simple and geometrical shape of the material, which is used to build the Ice Hotel. The ice extracted from the Torne älv are shaped as cubes or blocks, and they will be put together as rough as they can be. This simple geometry is related to the ice cube, as this is the first contact kids are having with this amazing material. These cubes slowly going out of the ground, walls and ceiling, they progress, they evolve and they turn the oval partitions into crystalised frozen rocks. They have different sizes, textures, orientations, and lighting, as a reference to the way they have been extracted from the river. The title "Cube3" comes from the fact that these blocks, coming out from the walls, look first like squares, before they turn into 3-dimensional elements with their six faces. Little by little, the squares are turning into cubes as they get bigger and higher. The bed is hidden by two big blocks then appears as soon as you go across them. The matress is inlaid into ice, surrounded by a cluster of snow and ice cubes. Once on the bed, you have the feeling of being in an ice cube cave, inside a glass crystal; between roughness and brightness, sharpness and sweetness, heavyness and gravity, into the warmth of your fur andthe crystalline coldness of your ice room.