swivel

Set among the sublime Icelandic landscape is a series of subtly enigmatic figures. Each a little different, their faceted mass responds to the environment at multiple scales. Adapting to immediate context and global orientation, the cabins maintain a predominant east-west axis while pivoting perpendicular or parallel to the approaching trail. The strategy affords a consistent southern facing roof for active and passive solar gain while serving as a means of cardinal orientation to hikers. The end of each cabin addresses an intermediate scale, swiveling to gesture toward the next cabin along the trail, further orienting hikers from the exterior but also from within as they gaze out the singular windows in the attenuated ends of each cabin, reflecting on either where they’ve come from or where they’re headed. But this swivel also formally connects the larger network of cabins, making them both unique and interdependent while further reflecting the extent of the national territory they inhabit.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.107.78

Volume Editors
Amy Kulper, Grace La & Jeremy Ficca

ISBN
978-1-944214-21-0