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Gimli, Canada
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RAW:Gimli
Gimli, Canada
Raw: Gimli is an intimate temporary restaurant space conceived and designed for the frozen surface of Lake Winnipeg in the town of Gimli, Manitoba for the 2018 winter season. The project is a collaborative effort that builds on RAW:Almond’s successful lineage of annual temporary restaurants at the Forks site in Winnipeg and Manitoba’s northern Churchill community. RAW: Gimli seeks to create a beautiful and meaningful space for a rich culinary experience and a celebration of Manitoba. This project is founded on the idea that temporary architecture need not be wasteful or extravagant to be impressive or bring spectacle to public spaces.
RAW: Gimli is constructed from stacked dimensional SPF lumber from a local supplier and compressed in place using ratchet strapping to form a rigid structure moored to the ice. Free of traditional mechanical fasteners, its material components were disassembled in returned to the supplier at the end of the restaurant’s program. Using readily available and affordable materials, the project uses the reliable conventions of the dimensional lumber that makes up so much of our local architectural vernacular in a surprising and somewhat unconventional way. By returning 90% its material mass to circulation in the local building trade, RAW: Gimli minimizes its environmental impact and points towards alternative methods for using our local resources sustainably and creatively.
Chad Connery , Jon Reid Wolfrom Engineers, Lindsay Reid , Simeon Rusnack
RAW: Gimli is constructed from stacked dimensional SPF lumber from a local supplier and compressed in place using ratchet strapping to form a rigid structure moored to the ice. Free of traditional mechanical fasteners, its material components were disassembled in returned to the supplier at the end of the restaurant’s program. Using readily available and affordable materials, the project uses the reliable conventions of the dimensional lumber that makes up so much of our local architectural vernacular in a surprising and somewhat unconventional way. By returning 90% its material mass to circulation in the local building trade, RAW: Gimli minimizes its environmental impact and points towards alternative methods for using our local resources sustainably and creatively.
Chad Connery , Jon Reid Wolfrom Engineers, Lindsay Reid , Simeon Rusnack
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