BHARATI, NEW INDIAN RESEARCH STATION, ANTARCTICA, 2012

摘要

This design shows how steel can be utilized in the most efficient and flexible manner providing excellent results from its assembly to its dismantling. The Bharati New Indian Research Station, located in the Larsemann Hills, Antarctica, is a project whose require-ments were highly demanding.Winters lasting eight months with an extremely harsh climate were not the only challenge the planners were presented with, conceming logistics as well as time required for construction. A team of specialists from different engineering firms managed to solve all issues and de-signed an efficient and technically feasible solution with regards to sustainability, building physics and practicability - at the same time allowing for low-costs, extreme weather conditions and an extremely short construction period of only four months: ISO freight containers were assembled in force-locked joints resulting in an extraordinarily appealing architecture.