Glacial Dust as a building material
Name
Sofie Angelie Hovgaard
Education degree
Master
Study programme
Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability
Institute
Architecture and Culture
Year
2021
The experimentarium is a production facility in Nuuk that turns Glacial Dust, a local Greenlandic material, into building elements while engaging an up-scaling of Greenlandic kayak building techniques into new architectural tectonics. The project breaks with the construction industry's dependence on importing labour and materials from Denmark by proposing a new vernacular architecture
The production facility: The project focuses on the most important transformation of glacial dust: from dust to solid. The
Compressing and firing of the material in the Production Hall
The Royal Danish Academy supports the Sustainable Development Goals
Since 2017 the Royal Danish Academy has worked with the Sustainable Development Goals. This is reflected in our research, our teaching and in our students’ projects. This project relates to the following UN goal(-s):
Decent work and economic growth (8)
Industry, innovation and infrastructure (9)
Responsible consumption and production (12)