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Antarctic Research Station Design Workshop

In this workshop we recreate a design competition that Expedition entered back in 2004 to design a new Antarctic laboratory for the British Antarctic Survey. The aim of the workshop is to explore the cycle of conceiving, testing and reviewing that is at the core of the design process; and to do so in the context of one of the most remote and environmentally demanding construction sites imaginable.

We developed this workshop for Masters students at the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology in Cambridge. We provide the students with the same level of briefing information as was given to the entrants of the original competition. The extreme nature of the design brief forces participants to think creatively about possible solutions. Rather than in-depth designs, we ask students to rapidly develop responses to the brief and then to test these against the design requirements. As such the design process is as important as the end result.
As with all the projects that we carry out of this nature, we make the teaching resources freely available via the Expedition Workshed site. Workshops such as these are located in the Undergraduate Staffroom area.

Link to Undergraduate Staffroom on Expedition Workshed Site.

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