ARCHITECTURE FOR HOSTILE PLACES: Research Center for Glaciologists in PASSLU- HLUNZA

Abstract

The profound symbiotic relationship between Human intervention and natural setting is central theme of this thesis. Their affiliative nature has taken a serious research dimension in contemporary global issues. The required symbiotic affair between a built body and its surrounding has taken a parasitic character which has led us to a needfor a thorough and thoughtful intellectual, objective and moral debate. Any built space informed by context and vice versa can be deemed as a radically innovative disposition informed by the needs of each participant associated in the relation. Therefore architecture is not merely an enclosed entity and a self-contingent body, but it is rather an extension of a complex ecological context; Defined and determined by the needs of the pre-conditions that exist at a particular site. The significance of architecture thus lies in the extrapolation of these conditions as a function of design; to reach out for influences and solutions in order to caterfor an immersive yetfunctional approach. One that responds to climatic and economical condition, fully available at site and also a functional need of the program itself.