The Halley VI follow Juan Carlos I Antarctic Research Station
06/02/2013.
British Antarctic Survey
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Among its proposals, is also the Spanish base: Juan Carlos I
JUAN CARLOS I ANTARCTIC RESEARCH STATION. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).
Spain has been operating a summer only research station on Livingstone Island in Antarctica since 1988. The buildings on the site have now reached the end of their useful lives. An international competition was therefore organised for the redesign of the base. Hugh Broughton Architects were selected as winners with a dynamic design, which draws upon the firm’s unparalleled expertise working in extreme environments.
HALLEY VI ANTARCTIC RESEARCH STATION. British Antarctic Survey.
Their international competition winning design for the self-sufficient scientific research base is now operational on a floating ice shelf 900 miles from South Pole. Hydraulically elevated ski based modules respond to annually rising snow levels and the need to relocate the base if the site calves off as an iceberg. A special central module provides a dramatic open plan social area at the heart of the station. The project demonstrates their ability to create world-class sustainable design to awesome technical criteria.
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Hugh Broughton Architects was formed in 1996 and has a reputation for producing carefully crafted contemporary architecture. The practice has designed projects for many high profile clients including the British Council, Institution of Structural Engineers, National Galleries of Scotland, Royal Society of Chemistry and the TUC. It is best known for the design of Maidstone Museum East Wing, which was completed in 2012 and received a RIBA Downland Award, three AJ Retrofit awards and a Civic Trust Commendation; and Halley VI Antarctic Research Station designed for the British Antarctic Survey, which was officially launched in 2013 and has received fifteen international awards to date. It is an extraordinary project which has led to numerous other international polar commissions and is the subject of a new building monograph published by Park Books in 2015.