Blue Tundra Suite by Elisabeth Kristensen
Above the arctic circle, where the snow cover the earth half of the year, the indigenous Sami people have been following the ever migrating reindeer herds from the frosty blue tundra to the soft green edges of the coastline for decades. Before this long journey the animals are collected and driven into a provisional fenced area to be marked with the sign of its owner.
The animals move in a spiral motion towards the center of the area, where they are to be separated. To be inside a moving spiral of animals, listening to the sound of thousands of hooves while the earth shakes is a very touching experience. Like the animals, everything moves in circles. The herds the seasons, even life itself.
Take a trip and travel back in time to a bygone era. Walk under the streetlights and on the cobbled roads of our Dickensian Street, and see the mysterious shops and buildings that existed in yesteryear. To see a place and imagine what occurred on those very streets, who lives within them and what are their stories?
“What happens to us is irrelevant to the world's geology, but what happens to the world's geology is not irrelevant to us. We must reconcile ourselves to the stones. Not the stones to us.”
- Hugh MacDiarmid, excerpt from On a Raised Beach, 1934
Nature adapts and evolves, all in different ways, as do we. Different situations call for different modifications and transformations. Water shapes stone in the same way as water can become stone. Different Natures is a room that looks to immerse those who visit it in the e xperience of nature by observing big ice boulders, carved water shapes, to resemble the solid mass that holds the planet together, and that like the ice, it might one day melt away. In Different Natures we want to observe the origin, the contrast of shapes making our praise to the water stone, shaping it on its way back to its liquid state.
Looking at Swedish Lapland from the sky, one is struck by a strong presence of lakes and a mountainous topography. Here, traces of earth's several evolutions and of glacial melting are particularly noticeable. We would like to highlight this vast nature for the Icehotel 32.
Ginnungagap miniaturises a part of the surrounding Arctic landscape into a room. It tells us a story about the origin of our environment. While walking in a cave surrounded by frozen rivers, lakes and mountains, architectural creatures can be discovered. Each one offers various possibilities of interactions. Feel free to try.
All snowflakes are formed as hexagonal structures, similar to a honeycomb. By drawing upon this idea we created a pattern which could be successfully applied in an Art Deco interior. We called the room Great Gatsby as the book and the film genuinely capture the spirit of the era and at the same time show us the longing for love.
We would like the guests to truly sense the idea of luxury. Hopefully they will also feel nostalgia for the epoch of the 1920s which has passed exactly like our project which is going to melt away.
It is the infinite space inside a defined object.
It is the vacuum surrounded by the matter that contains it.
It is a human in his circle and the earth in his square.
It is silence and contemplation.
It is the always full emptiness.
It is space. It is within. Inom.
“Let the molecules race.... (said Christian Morgenstern, poet)
What if you were really small? Really really small. Tiny! About 0.000000001 metres. As microscopically small as a molecule and you move in a world full of other molecules. Welcome to our space! Everything around us is made of atoms and molecules. Plants, animals, people, the earth, the sun and everything else that exists. With our Art Suite, we dive into the world of molecules and use it to make visible what is otherwise only visible to the naked eye with special microscopes. In our room, the focus is mainly on a very specific molecule: H2O the water molecule. The molecule of the Torne river.
The shape of the room represents the shape of a water molecule and, like it, consists of three elements. The bed is located in the largest atom the oxygen atom. On both sides it connects with the two hydrogen atoms The result is a clear yet exciting space in space sequence.
In the suite No Pressure the inspirational source has been Icehotel and the force the snow and ice inflict on the structure during its seasonal lifespan.
The art suite depicts earth in a press as a central piece surrounded by images of animals extinct in our lifetime. The beds are placed in a gigantic vice that cracks the bed and keeps the night guests in a steady grip.
Evolution is constant. Now humankind has appropriated the room meant for everyone. Like an invasive species spreading in all conceivable dimensions, we exploit animals and nature, as if every earthly thing exists solely for the benefit of the human race, as if resources were boundless.
Someone ordered room service. They had plenty already, so they wanted even more. But the service, when delivered, isn't what was expected. A band of monkey’s tug at the tapestries of the existing order. A prehistoric dinosaur rumbles through the wall. They crash the party in the luxurious parlor where man has revealed as if there's no tomorrow. They disrupt the bloated state of humankind's abundance.
Room Service dethrones humankind from its self assumed superior role. We are made of the same stuff that once were the stuff of dinosaurs, and the waters of oceans, rivers and lakes are forever in motion, forever the same.
An echo through times If water had a memory, what story would it tell us? Once upon a time Earth thrived and fed the greatest mammals of the Megafauna. The imperial mammoth walked on earth for almost five million years and was worshipped by the first human beings.
The Sacred Giant suite reveals an ancient ruler. Sacrifice yourself and sleep on the altar in an embrace of The Sacred Giant.
Since a couple of years we have chickens and it is so much fun to watch them go to bed. They chat to each other about what happened that day and they all try to get the best spot to sleep. This inspired us to design a room with chickens. Also the expression go to bed with the chickens means go to bed early, not a bad thing to do in the winter.
UV Suite by Nicolas Triboulot and Fernand Manzi
ULTRA VIOLET is a window on the invisible world, on the infinitely small or the infinitely large, on these secret worlds where the real rubs shoulders with the mysterious. What we think we see, is not necessarily a reflection of reality, UV is a proposal of architecture that metamorphoses according to the viewer's point of view, it is moving and elusive, it is the reflection of our world full of paradox. The light, essential component of UV will reveal what we do not suspect, the light is magic and essential.
ULTRA VIOLET, allows us to see beyond reality, ULTRA VIOLET, allows us to dream, ULTRA VIOLET reminds us that our world is fragile and that what we do not see is just as important and vital as what is visible.
On Air Ceremony Hall
It has always been people's dream to be able to fly. We have become so used to it, it is almost easier than walking, but in the last year we discovered it is not as simple as it might seem. Please walk a round and feel the air under your wings.
You can visit the Ice Hotel until April...when it starts to melt!
https://www.icehotel.com/
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