[Architecture] Antarctic research station design

[dancefloorlandmine]

An interesting, if fairly short, BBC article on changes in Antarctic building design. These days, they mostly look like James Bond sets, but there's some really impressive work going into them - whether from the viewpoint of energy efficiency or consideration for the needs of the occupants for various sense cues that are otherwise in short supply in the environment.

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Comments

[ephemera]

An interesting read - thank you!

[brotherelf.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's fairly impressive. The fire hazard argument kind of makes sense, otherwise, I'm fairly surprised because I had expected far more compact spherical designs to get a good surface-to-volume ratio.