BLACK ICE FORUM

by Kate Hosking

The Black Ice Forum is a master plan that addresses the issue of black carbon emissions and its detrimental affects on the melting arctic ice and consequently global warming. The purpose of the master plan is to use architecture as a climate marker within the shifting landscape of sea ice and to humanise the overwhelming topic of global warming. This is done by blurring the boundaries between architecture and landscape and by using the changing climatic conditions to expose, conceal and manipulate both the structure and its surroundings. The project also seeks to bring black carbon to the forefront of climate summits through the implementation of policies, a new measure of GDP (based on environmental factors) and black carbon credits.