Shane Neufeld and Kevin Kunstadt have worked together to create Kissing Booth, a progressive warming hut for the Assiniboine River and Winnipeg. Follow after the break for additional rendering, diagrams and a quick description from the designer.
Project Concept:
Our design presents an alternative concept for the warming hut: it offers a hut-space which interacts with and is activated by the skaters and the skate path. The design consists of two distinct surfaces — the ground plane, and the path edge/wall – that torque and kiss at their center. This moment of charged contact is at once the peak of their rotation, the spot where their function as a warming hut is realized (in the form of a wall and a roof), and the hut’s structural apex.
The surfaces –which frame the skate path — rotate in response to the trajectory of the skater as they move from skating to sitting and back again. Further these dual surfaces are not really surfaces at all, but a series of beams which, although angular in nature suggest a complex curvature by means of a simple rotation process. The design employs the building module of dimensional lumber studs to achieve a visual play of light and shadow, motion, and ultimately shelter. The only elements which are not inherently a part of this beam-surface structure are the components of comfort for the visitor which exist at the structure’s core- a bench for rest, and a window which frames the landscape. The Kissing Booth offers the visitor a dynamic skating-shelter experience.
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- Courtesy Shane Neufeld + Rogers Marvel Architects
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- Courtesy Shane Neufeld + Rogers Marvel Architects
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- Courtesy Shane Neufeld + Rogers Marvel Architects
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- Courtesy Shane Neufeld + Rogers Marvel Architects
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- Plan
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- Elevation
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- Design Board
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- Diagram
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Small but nice. I like this style of visualization.
What’s the story behind Shane Neufeld + Rogers Marvel Architects in the title?
Hi, who knows the email address of Rogers Marvel Architects, I can’t find it through their website.
Thanks
this project has nothing to do with rogers marvel. There was some mistake. Its by Shane Neufeld and Kevin Kundstadt. An architect + Artist collaboration.
This is a nice little project. I love the exploration of materials. http://on.fb.me/holcim-awards
Nice concept. There is an existing bench in Odessa Ukraine with a common style. 46°29’0.59″N 30°42’59.67″E (via Google maps) http://www.panoramio.com/user/5182741 -these are the pics on panoramio
Looks kind of shabby to me. And it doesn’t show the way you can join those wooden boards (probably with metal corner profiles and screws, which would would destroy the elegance of the structure).
I’m not sure I would lean against it if I’d see it built.