Glacierport_test by Don Dimanlig

glacierport 01 A GRAPHIC NOVEL

CRYOGENIC ARCHITECTURE PROJECT: ICE AGE NETWORK GLACIERPORT 01 DIMANLIG, MAC DONINRI L. 100789023 STUDIO 7 - WINTER 2014 PROF. JOHAN VOORDOUW CARLETON UNIVERSITY AZRIELI SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM

2014 (January - April) Disclaimer This is a work of architectural fiction Any similarities to existing buildings, people, groups, and situations are coincidental. The art is not edited or altered from what was presented during the 4th year Final Crit of April 17, 2014.

First Printing: April 22, 2014 Glacierport 01 Story and Art by: Don Dimanlig dondimanlig@yahoo.com dondimanlig.daportfolio.com issuu.com/dondimanlig Characters: Architect Aldo Minding Skadi Drifa Dinlitla Sgt. Krikorhan Andorouw

Contents I. Disclaimer & Other Info II. Glacierport 01 - Key Plan & Elevation III. Glacierport 01 - Graphic Novel IV. Appendix: Aldo Minding’s Cryogenic Architecture Report V. Skadi’s Critique Notes VI. Future Vision

Key Plan

West Elevation

00 - Railway Extension 01 - Railway & Main Long Supply Line 02 - Docks - Cargo + Research Vessel 03 - Supply Storage - 1st stage 04 - Subfactory: “Kassuq” Remote Cryogenics 05 - Podcicle 06 - Kassuq ReCoolant 07 - Residences / Recreational 08 - Communication / Data Tower 09 - Command Center / Administration 10 - Training / Education / Public 11 - Test Lake - South (Release) 12 - Release Gate 13 - Test Lake Water Intake 14 - Test Lake ReCoolants 15 - Test Lake - North (Sustain) 16 - Test Factories 17 - Test Laboratories

18 - Front Service Bay 19 - Central Cooling Control 20 - Central Cooling Complex 21 - Cooling Towers A,B,C,D 22 - Cooling Supply Bridge 23 - Nootaikok Freezer Housing 24 - Subfactory: “Nootaikok” Glacier Drum 25 - Iceberg Dropzone 26 - Water Collection Complex 27 - Water Absorption 28 - Water Regulation 29 - Water Filtration 30 - Water Desalination 31 - Main Cool-Ready Water Storage 32 - Water Distribution Array 33 - Subfactory: “Manirak” Ice Sheet Sprawler 34 - Manirak ReCoolant 35 - Railway North Base + Facility Maintenance

Appendix:

aldo minding report cryogenic architecture 1.1 arctic canada 1.1.1. Great White North Canada is also known as the Great White North for its formidable size and power, as well as it’s geographic location - right up in the arctic. I believe that Canada should not lose one of its great characteristics. Canada should take action and protect it - historically, politically and environmentally. 1.1.2. What is Ours? Arctic Canada’s territory extends up to Northernmost point — Cape Columbia, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut 83°6’41”N 69°57’30”W. This point is only 769 km away from the North Pole. Arctic Canada, or the Far North (as a subset of North Canada) is the area above the arctic circle - a latitude that runs 66° 33’ 44” north of the Equator. 1.1.3. The Terrain Above the Tree Line (the edge of where trees are no longer capable of living), the terrain is called Tundra. Here, the land is in permafrost - where the soil is permanently frosted, making construction difficult and dangerous, and agriculture impossible. These barren lands are composed of a variety of plains, mountains, and low lands nearing water.

1.2 the melting ice 1.2.1. Situation Whether by man induced global-warming or natural cycle theory, there is irrefutable evidence that the Arctic Ice is melting. This is a combination of loss of ice due to melting, rising of sea water levels, and release of methane from the sea to the atmosphere. This is a blatant warning of climate change. This also affects animal population concentration and migration, as well as ocean circulation. 1.2.2. Statistics In 1970, Japan calculated that the Arctic is melting 50 years â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;too fastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. In 2013, The ice was 5.10 million sq. km.; very low compared to the 1981 to 2010 average. The past 7 summers have had the 7 lowest minimum ice coverage since recordings started in 1979. 1.2.3. Solution Even when presented with Global Warming Proof and possible solutions, often times, the world cannot (or would not) choose to implement such - because the problem is either too big or too seemingly slow paced. The Solution is for Canada, to lead the systematic, long-term, counter environment using Cryogenic Architecture. The plan is to fight against the melt whilst one by one urging nations to be environmentally conscious enough to create an impact; thus making this expensive project a temporary, yet necessary solution.

1.3 NORTHWEST PASSAGE 1.3.1. History Explorers found the Northwest Passage looking for a possible trade route. Roald Amundsen first navigated it in 1903. Until 2009, Ice prevented regular water shipping throughout most of the year - but now the ice has melted consistent enough to make a year -round open passage. 1.3.2. Open For Business Open navigation was an issue , because of sovereignty claims over the waters complicate shippings. The Canadian government considers the NW Pass as Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own internal waters, but the US + some EU countries consider is international. 1.3.3. Ice Breakers Ice breakers are ships that destroy surface ice to create passageways for itself and other ships. This is necessary for modern commerce and other travel; however, this is the complete opposite of the proposed project. For broken ice is unpredictable and could shatter into more pieces uncontrollably. The balance between Icebreakers and this projects will determine the new manmade reshaping of the Arctic.

2.1 Cryogenic architecture 2.1.1 Etymology “Cryogenic” is derived from Greek meaning “the production of freezing cold”. It is also the engineering field that studies materials in very low temperatures. Cryogenic Architecture is an experimental architectural front - leading the research and production of cold elements (specifically Icebergs - for this project) using technology and techniques embedded within specially located architecture. 2.1.2. Precedents Other existing arctic facilities include research facilities, cryogenic seed storage, and other command centers. There are machines and methods that can create ice from small to large scale, but nothing has been designed to match the iceberg making capacites of a natural glacier. Cryogenic Architecture exists because the machine needed for this requires a massive facility. Technologies to be applied: Freon Cooling, Liquid Nitrogen Freezing, Vacuum Freezing 2.1.3 Staying Frosty Cryogenic Architecture’s goal is to use ice sheets and icebergs to help the arctic environment; by balancing ice coverage quantities, opening and blocking of passageways, creating ice pathways, and eventually regulating temperature. Cryogenic Architecture is a wide-scale project with a global size impact goal.

2.2 base of operations 2.2.1. Northwest Passage An architectural movement such as Cryogenic Architecture should be located where it can mediate between the problem and the solution, between the north and the south, between the barren and the populated. The Northwest passage is selected as the middle between these two things. It solves problems above the arctic circle while using the technology and supplies from the south. The Northwest Passage also becomes a highway for spreading ice, the cold, the ships and architecture. 2.2.2. Glacier Front For the Cryogenice Architecture to be most effective, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prototype facility should be situated where the area is already conducive for supercooling and freezing. The first base would be located in the northwest glacier front. Devon island, (Baffin Bay, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada) is the largest uninhabited island in the world. On the east side of Devon island is a smaller lower, less icy area fronting the Devon Ice Cap. This is where the corner stone of cryogenic architecture is laid.

2.2.3. Open Waters Besides the glacier front location, the project begins fronting a large body of water. This provides enough space for the machine produced ice to be tested, grown and modified Before theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re remotely controlled and monitored. Baffin Bay between Canada and Greenland (Denmark) would be the starting point of these tests. Balance between Icebreakers and this projects will determine the new man-made reshaping of the Arctic.

3.1 project: ice age 3.1.1. Machinized Ice Age PROJECT: ICE AGE is an architectural project in the arctic. Where man takes matters to his own hands a nd uses machine and architecture to create a fast response to global warming: a modern and controlled ice age. The machine and ice factories will be the biggest the world has ever built. 3.1.2. Network Prototype Project: Ice Age is a networked arctic program. There would be multiple facilities spread all over arctic Canada once the prototype base facility is proven a success. Once operational and effective, the base facility shall be cloned and placed into other strategic locations, even beyond Canada. 3.1.3. Chain of Command Canada will be the head of the entire operation. Having invented Cryogenic architecture an launching Project: Ice Age, Canada will become responsible for the local and global effects of the program. Project Ice Ageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s network will be controlled from the first Freezing Facility: Glacierport 01. In the future, more glacierports will be made. Within Glacierports are factories, subfactories, then special cryovessels.

3.2 glacierport 01 PROTOTYPE ARCTIC FREEZING FACILITY

3.2.1. Research Glacierport 01’s Research Facilities are necessary in the operation because a lot of the technologies are still experimental and need to be tested first in controlled environments: such as the indoor laboratory, the test pools, and the test lake. Research also covers material testing, arctic surveying, and meteorology. As the frontline of Cryogenic Architecture, Glacierport 01’s research facilities are designed to be the ‘permafrost-ground-breaking’.

3.2.2. Management Glacierport 01’s Management includes the command center, the factory base buildings, the supply & storage shipping, research wing base, and the residence & recreation areas for the workers. Glacierport 01 will eventually become more than just it’s own command center but the command center of future Glacierports in the Project Ice Age Network. 3.2.3. Ice SubFactories Glacierport 01’s main function is to create ice to counter global warming ecologically and place Canada in a powerful position politically. Glacierport, (formerly known as “The Berg-er”) is equipped with Ice Factories, sectors of the facilities dedicated to creating an distributing ice in their own unique manner. It includes the Nootaikok, the Manirak, and the Kassuq.

4.a subfactory: nootaikok NOOTAIKOK - [GOD HAMMER] - GLACIER DRUM

4.A.1. Etymology Nootaikok is the Inuit God of Icebergs & Glaciers. Before Glacierport, only natural Glaciers create such scale of ice, now it’s recreated in a large drum structure, also nicknamed the God Hammer from the iceberg dropping action. 4.A.2. Big Freeze The biggest factory within the Glacierport 01 freezing facility is the Nootaikok, thus it is so named after the Inuit God. The Nootaikok is attached to the water freezing-desalinating-storing system and receives its water supply via a towerbridge that extends above the Glacier Drum. The purified water is layered in calculated stages and frozen using either freon / liquid nitrogen / vaccum cooling as it fills its first stage container shape. Water and Ice freeze around a core structure that will be left inside the iceberg for tracking and other purposes. It is then carefully compressed, just like the weight of glacier and gravity would do. The Refill and Compress process is repeated for months, until the maximum capacity Iceberg is complete and ready for launch. At launch, Nootaikok prepares for one of the biggest man-made structure movement ever. It detaches supply cables, and double checks the Core’s functionality and stability. The reinforced drum gates open left and right, while the middle plates stay attached to the iceberg like a face - marking Canada’s creation and contribution. The locks are released and it hammers the waters beneath with its weight. An Iceberg is born, released, now pushed to roam the Arctic.

4.B subfactory: KASSUQ KASSUQ - [PODCICLES] - REMOTE CRYOGENICS

4.B.1. Etymology Kassuq is the Inuit name meaning “drifting lump of ice” just like any small iceberg, category growler of bergy-bit. Remote Cryogenics: vessels are sent out to operate elsewhere, away from base using “Podcicles” (pod+popcicle) that float & freeze. 4.B.2. Reconnaissance / Reproduction The oldest factory conceptualized for Project: Ice Age was Kassuq. Originally, Glacierport was not stationary, but a moving iceberg station. The design evenually anchored itself unto land and grew to more than just the pod-port. The additional programs turned it into the Glacierport 01. Retaining it’s old conceptual design, the port keeps it’s snowflake inspired distribution. A Podcicle stocks up on a certain amount of starting-water with it before launching. It will do a pre-cooling at the station and then be launched to open waters. it then continues to create it’s own iceberg and furher adds to it by collecting, desalinating and freezing it’s own surrounding. This will require the most advanced technology on such relatively smaller scale. Once the Podcicle reaches the optimum size, it detaches itself from the new iceberg. The Podcicle leaves part of its core within the new iceberg, while the rest of its body heads back to Kassuq, pod port. The new iceberg is now solar sail powered and protected, while internally cooling and externally extending. The ideal goal is to create an iceberg capable of cooling and creating other, new icebergs on its own.

4.c subfactory: manirak MANIRAK - [SPRAWLER] - SHEET ICE SLIDER

4.C.1. Etymology Manirak is the Inuit name meaning “smooth stretch of ice”. The sheet ice slider operates like a material mold-and-extrude machine. The icy surface will spread itself outwards like a Sprawl(er), segemented in varying hexagons, like snowflakes 4.C.2. Creeping Cold The last factory configuration that was considered to be Glacierport 01 is the Manirak. The Manirak is attached to the water freezing-desalinating-storing system and receives its water supplies and scatters it into freezing pools. These containers are frozen, compressed and layered, creating a stronger sheet, the same principle as steel folding. The ice is molded into snowflake / crystal shaped interlocking segments - behaving like ice sheet control joints. The giant portion of multiple ice sheet is released unto open water slowly. These ice sheet can reflect the sun’s harmful rays away, regulating the water temperature. Animals like the polar bear can benefit from these new landings, for habitat, migration, and overall survival. Further, these ice sheet sprawl can also be tested by hosting public events on top of this man-made ice. This prove’s science and architecture’s strength, while promoting Canada, it’s events and the building that made it possible.

Key Plan

West Elevation

5.1 Schematic plans

6.1 polar future 6.1.1. Operation Overview Movement: Cryogenic Archtiecture Project: PROJECT: ICE AGE Arctic Freezing Network Location Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada Building: Glacierport 01 Freezing Facility (Prototype) SubFactories: Nootaikok -Glacier Drum “God Hammer” Manirak -Sheet Ice Slider “Sprawler” Kassuq -Remote Cryogenics “Podcicles” 6.1.2. For Canada Project Ice Age’s projected benefits for Canada are great in terms of scientific and architectural advancement. Canada will have a virtual grasp of its territories and how the environment behaves around it. Canada’s Arctic Wildlife can be assisted, as well as it’s global warming issues directly addressed. 6.1.3. And The World Ultimately, the world benefits from this, as the entire world relies on the Arctic for temperature regulation. Project Ice Age may be a costly, temporary solution, but it would be necessary while trying to reform every country’s ecological ways. The Goal is for Cryogenic Architecture to restore the damage that was done by everything that came before it.

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