River Harvest
River Harvest is constructed from the very resource that defines its site, the river’s ice.
Cored, harvested, and stacked like a pile of wood, the ice will be transformed into a warming hut.
A textured path created by the refrozen core holes leads to the hut; the artifact of the hut’s construction.
A threshold of firewood, stacked in a metal framework, creates the entry into this lucid room of ice. A room that will transform under the touch of warm hands, changing temperatures, snow, and light.
During the day, it is a part of the frozen landscape. At night, a beacon that glows from a flickering fire.
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River Harvest was a proposal for the Warming Huts competition that takes place annually to create temporary shelter along the Forks Rivertrail, on the Assiniboine River, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
