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Viewing Barrels
Myvatn, Iceland

Type: Public Competition

This competition requested a clear and direct means of viewing the Aurora Borealis from the edge of Myvatn Lake in northern Iceland, all while fulfilling a program of year-round habitation. Our proposal establishes the fixed building as an edge that rakes back the landscape, and which provides an anchorage point from which to deploy multi-coloured barrel-shaped singular rooms along the ground plane.