F\F "Tell us a about your project “The Solid State of Matter”, also known as the Frozen Tent."
Gustav Düsing "It was originally created for the 2017 first and only Antarctic Biennale to which I was invited, and is a pretty radical investigation into the limits of shelter.
The tent is the original typology of Antartica – the first man-made structure out there was a tent. We can learn a lot from it as humans I think – how we deal with footprint, for example.
The tent I created for this occasion consists of a fabric structure that becomes rigid and structural only when sprayed with water and frozen by the environment."
F\F "You recently reconstructed the frozen tent in Berlin-Westend, close to your home. How does the ‘comfort’ of that structure change when it is placed in a domestic urban square versus the Antarctic wilderness?"
Gustav Düsing "Absolutely. It changed a lot. In Antarctica it was an experiment, an idea, a narrative.
Here, it was a community project. The tent was put up, and soon people started taking over the space – it became a public space: It became dirty, kids were even smoking weed inside. I was fascinated about how it was immediately accepted – a very satisfying moment for me as an architect."
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