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Research and monitoring centre, Svalbard
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STATUS
Concept
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
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Master thesis project in the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Mentor: arch. Nikolai Davidkov
The global warming in the Arctic is going at speeds twice as fast according to scientists. This sudden change in climate will affect the rest of the world in later period. A station must be build to research, monitor and analyze all the changes* about this pro-cess. Furthermore affected by the rapid temperature changes are the ice of the Arctic Ocean and its inhabitants – the polar bears. The ice will shrink drastically allowing for goods to be transported from China to Europe twice as fast compared to today**. Un-reached before natural resource of gas and oil will be most likely discovered underneath. Along with the positive economic side of this changes there is also the negative aspect of contamination and bad human influences to habitat, wildlife and pollution.
The increased traffic in the region requires the establishment of a concept for ad-equate presentation and preservation of cultural and historical heritage. In the territory of Pyramiden could be found traces from the yearly 1910s as well as a preserved copy of ideal communist city from 1980s. This diverse stratification not seen on these cold lands very often is an evidence for the value of the place.
The need for energy independent research centre as well as the increased tourist interest are prerequisites for the revival of this ghost town. To achieve this, experimental preservation methods will be used in conjunction with the priorities and visions for the island – to be the best preserved wilderness area of Norway.
The town will become a “living” open-air museum along with the mine and the new research centre that will host an exhibition halls for the history of the town. The ina-bility to encompass all areas of scientific interest with only one building suggests the use of scientific routes with mobile capsule units that will be located near sites of interest such as glaciers, peaks, rivers, nesting sites, etc. This dispersive system would allow the scientist to reach a lot more territory for research and monitoring than only one building would enable.
* Nature, animals, ice, geology, etc.
** The first cargo ship owned by COSCO reached Europe by the end of 2014.
More on the building and the masterplan
The cultural heritage is protected through the use of information monoliths that record all changes in the structure of the city and its parts. The collected data would be used by scientists and visitors. Future guest to the city of Pyramiden would be able to use holographic glasses to restore the soviet city image recorded by the monoliths over the ruined landscape of the future.
In order to be as unobtrusive as possible the new building is partially buried un-derground making it almost disappear from the arctic desert landscape. On the other hand this massive amount of earth around the structure affects the physiological and psychological nature of the inhabitants so that they feel safer in one more cosy and pro-tected space. The long corridor divides the building into two halves. The one on the south is public and living area and the one on the north is allocated for servicing spaces. The whole building is nearly passive and 100% energy independent.
Link to a time-lapse of the model making: https://vimeo.com/124113586
Mentor: arch. Nikolai Davidkov
The global warming in the Arctic is going at speeds twice as fast according to scientists. This sudden change in climate will affect the rest of the world in later period. A station must be build to research, monitor and analyze all the changes* about this pro-cess. Furthermore affected by the rapid temperature changes are the ice of the Arctic Ocean and its inhabitants – the polar bears. The ice will shrink drastically allowing for goods to be transported from China to Europe twice as fast compared to today**. Un-reached before natural resource of gas and oil will be most likely discovered underneath. Along with the positive economic side of this changes there is also the negative aspect of contamination and bad human influences to habitat, wildlife and pollution.
The increased traffic in the region requires the establishment of a concept for ad-equate presentation and preservation of cultural and historical heritage. In the territory of Pyramiden could be found traces from the yearly 1910s as well as a preserved copy of ideal communist city from 1980s. This diverse stratification not seen on these cold lands very often is an evidence for the value of the place.
The need for energy independent research centre as well as the increased tourist interest are prerequisites for the revival of this ghost town. To achieve this, experimental preservation methods will be used in conjunction with the priorities and visions for the island – to be the best preserved wilderness area of Norway.
The town will become a “living” open-air museum along with the mine and the new research centre that will host an exhibition halls for the history of the town. The ina-bility to encompass all areas of scientific interest with only one building suggests the use of scientific routes with mobile capsule units that will be located near sites of interest such as glaciers, peaks, rivers, nesting sites, etc. This dispersive system would allow the scientist to reach a lot more territory for research and monitoring than only one building would enable.
* Nature, animals, ice, geology, etc.
** The first cargo ship owned by COSCO reached Europe by the end of 2014.
More on the building and the masterplan
The cultural heritage is protected through the use of information monoliths that record all changes in the structure of the city and its parts. The collected data would be used by scientists and visitors. Future guest to the city of Pyramiden would be able to use holographic glasses to restore the soviet city image recorded by the monoliths over the ruined landscape of the future.
In order to be as unobtrusive as possible the new building is partially buried un-derground making it almost disappear from the arctic desert landscape. On the other hand this massive amount of earth around the structure affects the physiological and psychological nature of the inhabitants so that they feel safer in one more cosy and pro-tected space. The long corridor divides the building into two halves. The one on the south is public and living area and the one on the north is allocated for servicing spaces. The whole building is nearly passive and 100% energy independent.
Link to a time-lapse of the model making: https://vimeo.com/124113586
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