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Situation

Climate in the arctic is changing drastically. It is expected that two main effects are going to happen until 2030: First, the arctic ice will have melted to an extend, which is going to make it possible to ship the so called Nort-West passage. One can already see a groing trend of ships using this way shorter route between Europe and the West coast of the US and Canada. Second, the arctic is turning green. That results in a shift of the treeline, in more vegetation in general and in an increase of overall temperature by huge numbers. The arctic is heating up almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet. The permafrost layer, which incorporates roughly 50% of the worlds carbon dioxide is in danger. But there will also be effects on nature.

Canada’s Arctic an Untapped Gold Mine … of Tourism!

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Concept

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site

The chosen site is the area of the Diavik Diamon Mine in the Nortwestern Terretoies of Canada. This mine is estimated to stop production in 2025 to move some other place and start again. This site is strategically well positioned to establish eco tourism, because of two main reasons: First: It is almost in the middle between the arctic coast and the southern population boundaries. Therefore it is posssible to access the site from both direction time efficietly. Second, this mid-canadian area is not estimated to have much more mineral ressource, which will result in no more industrial area to disturb nature.

robotic production

I see ahuge potential to use robotic (pre)fabrication with the material wood. Since there is no infrastructure available on site, it is necessary to produce all parts of the building in components which only need to ba assembled on site.