Exhibition asks probing questions about climate change and how to build structures for the most extreme pressures
But at the Daniels school’s Architecture and Design Gallery, the show emphasizes drawings and photographs of buildings: those constructed by Antarctic expeditions from the mid-19th century through 2020. “This is architecture of extremes,” Du said. “Each of these stations is both an intimate environment and a way to answer how we can occupy an inhospitable continent.”
Resolutions for the Antarctic thus opens up several major issues in architecture and spatial design. These include prefabricated building components and panels, an idea that holds potential for cost savings and high energy performance. This idea has been present in the Antarctic since 1895. In the 1960s, the Alberta Trailer Company produced modules shaped like shipping containers, for the U.S.
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