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Glacial Dust as a building material
Navn
Sofie Angelie Hovgaard
Uddannelsesgrad
Kandidat
Institut
Bygningskunst og Kultur
Program
Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability
År
2021
The experimentarium is a production facility in Nuuk that turns Glacial Dust, a local Greenlandic material, into building elements while engaging an up-scaling of Greenlandic kayak building techniques into new architectural tectonics. The project breaks with the construction industry's dependence on importing labour and materials from Denmark by proposing a new vernacular architecture