Helm(H)ut

Hut design referenced from the Jofa Hockey Helmet

Maybe a little too slick and lacking natural and recycled materials but here is what I have been able to visualize since I met with everyone Thursday evening

Ice Sprouts

Things sprouting from the ice look very cool...

Hi all.

I guess our concluding thematic elements for the warming hut were wayfinding and a jofa helmet. so 1) protection and 2) direction

Here are sketches and random thoughts from yesterdays after work meeting.

The gist being, we wanted to have an anchoring back wall that is a piece of furniture with shelves, seats etc that would also be a heat sink - and a lighter and transparent front wall.

Options we heard for stuffing for heat sinks: straw bale, hockey pucks, water bottles filled with water, spray foam, furniture foam.

The floor could be a rubberized map with an abstracted map inlaid into it or have an illuminated led map with the red led saying you are "here"

The front "wall" could have wayfinding incorporated into it - maps or children skating that would cast a shadow into the space.

we like felt... freeze thaw.... being practical...'airlock' doors...reuseable...

-a

Warming the Hut

http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/SolarHomes/PasSolEnergyBk/PSEbook.htm

We would like to integrate some passive solar strategies in order to "warm" the hut. The problem a light / take down approach to the structure we are lacking in thermal mass. Black rubber flooring or mass in the floor of the structure may be an option.

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(not to say that's the sketch we use, just trying to trigger some thoughts....this would be like a giant paper lantern)

hut sketches

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Questions and Thoughts

How big do we design each hut and how many? The ones from last year are only 10'x10' largest, and from the meeting it sounded like we'd only do one(and probably because of the budget only one)

How and where will the huts be stored off season? In the application it says the huts are to be reused. Some of last year's might of been auctioned off(apparently). I guess it just depends on the hut you make, if it's durable and easy to remove I imagine it will be reused.

How do we design them to disassemble? in the meeting we had discussed a tent like structure that was semi-tranparent/translucent.

Do we design them so they stack? a tent like thing would fold up easily. You'd probably need a diagram to set it up....multiple ones might be interesting....maybe a bunch of smaller ones.

Do we design them so forklift forks can be inserted into them or is it hooks for a small crane? The machines I've seen are little tractors so if you had a big structure they'd pull it or push it in. I think ours would be a roll up so they could easily move it around unassembled.

Am I thinking too practically with my questions? yes! I don't know if anyone took minutes, but there were sure a lot of ideas flying around. (more above...I'm james BTW)

the idea

where the idea of the journey to the hut (skating lines) and having it unfold from the 2 dimensional lines of that journey.