Warming Huts — Rolando Girodengo

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Warming Huts

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2017
Winnipeg, Canada
Competition
Adrián Flores, Carolina Segura, David de la Garza
5,000 m2

Warming Huts is an annual competition for art installations at Winnipeg, Manitoba, thought of as places of shelter on top of the frozen river. Instead of placing a physical structure on the site, we wanted to generate space through immaterial means. During the day, a camera would track human movement on the blank canvas that is the ice. These movements would be processed into a moving thermal map showing the “warmer” areas where people concentrate and are more used by the community. We proposed projecting this map on the ice at nightfall, creating an ever-changing art installation that reflects human use. The installation would allow visitors to look back on the day’s events in a light show reminiscent of the Northern Lights.