Iceberg forms floating diving platform in New Hampshire lake
Swimmers in New Hampshire's Willy Lake can climb up this floating installation by architecture firm Bulot+Collins and dive back into the water.
Iceberg is a diving platform constructed as a play surface and place to overlook the forest landscape in the town of Strafford. Bulot+Collins created the structure with a group of children during the Beam Camp in the summer of 2019.
"Rising from the middle of the lake, the Iceberg pushes further the limits of campgrounds, and offers a new vantage point on its surroundings," Bulot+Collins said.
The angular sculpture has a frame constructed from locally sourced wood that rests on empty flotation barrels. The structure is clad in 1,400 handmade thermochromic tiles fabricated from recycled high density polyethylene (HDPE).
To make the cladding, the studio and the campers melted and moulded recycled HDPE into triangles. The shapes were then coated with resin and a thermochromic pigment, which changes colour when exposed to temperature changes.
Depending on how the sunlight hits the installation the tiles will change from blue to white, which the studio said mimics the appearance of a melting iceberg.
"Once the tiles are glued onto the structure, their glistening surface turns from different shades of blue in the cold to a polar white in the heat, so that the iceberg would appear to progressively melt under the sun,"Â the studio added.
"In addition to offering a stimulating sight, the responsive quality of the...
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