Transformation of Arctic registration (Nunavut)

This thesis investigates architecture as the medium that translates and measures site. It is through the registering of the changing weather conditions that architecture represents and connects its inhabitants to site, the exterior climate and ultimately to its Arctic community, Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada.; In this northern community, the weather is symbolized in the material ice. Ice is seen as a common element which attempts to bring together the two Arctic communities, the building and the landscape. Two means of reading the weather are incorporated in this building: one is the physical reading of ice, and the other is a reading of technical data, which creates an exchange between the scientists (who live and work on site) and the Inuit people. These readings are manifest in daily and seasonal rituals through the transformation of the architecture as a weather reading device.