HERMT UMHVERFI - S(T)IMULATED ENVIRONMENTS

by Anthony Saynor

Hermt Umhverfi will allow rescue teams as well as extreme tourists to train and learn of the
dangers through artificial simulation before venturing out into the wilderness of the land of
ice and fire. The scheme is geared towards a search and rescue training facility personnel will
be taught valuable skills such as navigating in a blizzard, putting on crampons, surviving an
avalanche and crevasse rescue. All achieved through the simulation and the harnessing of the
conditions. The proposition is positioned on the former site Reykjavik city airport, formerly known
as Midborg, a plan for 2030 envisages the plot to host high tech, researched based industries