Post-structuralist French architecture firm R&Sie(n) is in the process of creating a new research station and museum called Waterflux whose strange shape suggests ice caves – or the guts of a living thing.
R&Sie(n), known as specialists in weird architecture, tries to create buildings that mirror the structure of biological organisms. These concept designs for the building, set to be completed next year, look a little like a toad. But according to the architects, who envision the building existing for most of the year in an icy landscape, they’ve tried for a look that’s like “Scooping out hollows within this volume [of the local habitat] as if it were an ice cavity, but in full wood [using] a . . . drill machine.”
Below, you can see designs and 3D printouts of the hallways and rooms, which will be done in flowing, curved wood.
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