Como Park 6
Papilion’s Marketplace
Papilion’s Cafe
C12 House
Surrounding Objects House
Colombo House
HEI School Senayan
One Fifteenth Coffee, PIK
One Fifteenth Coffee, Hyundai SPARK
One Fifteenth Coffee, Gandaria
One Fifteenth Coffee, Menteng
One Fifteenth Coffee, Kemang
One Fifteenth Coffee, Museum MACAN
Shim Sukkah
Intrafood Singabera
IKEA Sauna
Beau Bakery
Bus Stop
Uranz Pavilion
Talache Sauna
Pantry Sauna
Transit Sauna
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SL Screen
Woven Tray
Papilion Cart
Petit Papilion Kiosk
Anni Chair
His/Hers
Unbuilt
WLT Prototype houses
Riisua
Figures
Cross
Roof/Raft
About
Unbuilt, 2010
roof/raft is a marker on the Assiniboine River, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
With the river’s annual freezing, quarried ice is harvested to construct a warming hut along the river trail. With freezing temperatures the solid ice provides structural support for the roof and a physical barrier from the wind. When the river ice thins and skates and warming huts are put away roof/raft remains, waiting for springs regenerative thawing. When the ice melts the timber roof crashes through the thinning ice that just week prior supported bustling winter activity. This moment dramatizes the seasonal transformation taking place all around. The warming hut becomes a raft that itself is a marker/safe platform that comments on the perennial flooding distinct to this river and it's southern flood plains. The phase change of water from solid to liquid necessitates and informs the architectural transformation. What at first was walled-shelter protecting one from the cold naturally melts to expose the absence of walls inherent in the river raft. In both instances the architecture celebrates the interaction with the site, it's dynamic elements, and the people's gravity towards inhabiting this space.