Image courtesy HAIGH Architects LLC
APERTURE is a prefabricated monocoque structure framing views of surrounding Icelandic landscape, and recently won the Hverfjall Volcano Lookout Point Competition, sponsored by Buildner architecture competitions.
Designed by Greenwich, Conn.-based HAIGH Architects LLC, APERTURE explores the notion of the architectural frame to focus visitor experience on views which have already been experienced in the ascent of the Hverfjall volcano. APERTURE interprets the prescriptive site area as an enclosed linear form with specific viewing apertures framing surrounding volcanoes, lava fields, lakes, and skies. As a destination, it encourages a participatory experience as part of understanding architecture as an identification of place.
APERTURE is assembled on site from six modular sections, each section is fabricated off-site and transported, by air lift, to the site location. Modules are connected by stiffening collar frames. Precast concrete footings anchor the sand-cast aluminum outrigger legs and stabilizer plates. Modules are fabricated from a light composite of cellular cast aluminum foam panels bonded to an inner liner of aluminum sheet.
