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White is the New Green
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White is the New GreenSnow is a sustainable building material. It is disposable
but generates no waste. It falls kilometers from its source but requires no
carbon for its transport. It is renewable every winter. To shelter the
thousands of spectators and athletes who converge on Mora every March for the arrival of the largest cross-country ski race in the world, White is the New Green proposes a
temporary village built from blocks of snow. The Vasaloppet ski race defines
the park year-round, inhabiting the summertime landscape with traces of its
wintertime visitors. As white turns to green the iGloo village melts into a
seasonal landscape, leaving behind beds of flowers and marsh grasses that echo
the spatial layout of the winter festival.
White is the New Green
allows the permanent residents of the park to participate in the festival while
preserving a private community. The apartment buildings fold around interior
courtyards that provide retreats from the festival crowds; each apartment opens
inwards to the private sphere and outwards to the public park. The buildings?
exterior profile alternates between straight and concave, carving pockets of
space within the park and articulating the housing blocks as distinctive icons
within the urban fabric.
but generates no waste. It falls kilometers from its source but requires no
carbon for its transport. It is renewable every winter. To shelter the
thousands of spectators and athletes who converge on Mora every March for the arrival of the largest cross-country ski race in the world, White is the New Green proposes a
temporary village built from blocks of snow. The Vasaloppet ski race defines
the park year-round, inhabiting the summertime landscape with traces of its
wintertime visitors. As white turns to green the iGloo village melts into a
seasonal landscape, leaving behind beds of flowers and marsh grasses that echo
the spatial layout of the winter festival.
White is the New Green
allows the permanent residents of the park to participate in the festival while
preserving a private community. The apartment buildings fold around interior
courtyards that provide retreats from the festival crowds; each apartment opens
inwards to the private sphere and outwards to the public park. The buildings?
exterior profile alternates between straight and concave, carving pockets of
space within the park and articulating the housing blocks as distinctive icons
within the urban fabric.
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