Winter stations is a proposal by David Bravo for Winter Station Festival in 2015. It is located in Toronto Canada in a seaside setting. Its scale is extrasmall with a surface of 50 sqm a budget of 9.000 € and a ratio of 180 €/sqm. Key material is wood.

The idea of Weathering is based on the freeze/thaw process as a physical mechanism that nature uses to sculpt the landscape. This process reminds us the tireless and yet powerful effort of nature in shaping our world.The freeze-thaw weathering process is also known as frost shattering and is based on the freeze-thaw cycles of the water and the pressure generated out of them and how that shatters the rocks.

Weathering is the abstraction of a rock that has been shaped from this process creating an interior landscape in between the cracks.This “cracks” create a playful interior topography, as primitive cavities, that offers the visitors the chances of experience different spaces with different relationships with the sea, the snow, the winds and the visuals.It has a very monolithic look from the outside while the inside is shattered in platforms with different heights that allow the visitor to observe the entire beach or hide from it.

1756-DBS-YYZ.CA-2015 — Posted in 2017 — Explore more projects on intervention and microarchitecture — Climate: continental and temperate — Coordinates: 43.668675, -79.289302 — Views: 4.633