FREEZE project

FREEZE, a celebration in Anchorage Alaska of life in the north, brings together people from around the world to highlight the grace and grandeur of the north through conferences, performances and exhibitions from January 10 until February 2, 2009.

molo will participate shaping a temporary outdoor room using snow and firewood. molo's northern sky circle will transform a plot of park land into a place of contemplation that honours the beauty of the northern winter sky.

The northern sky circle is an outdoor room made from the snow and sky of the northern landscape. It is a place for contemplation, gathering and a heightened sensory experience of the winter sky.

Tall walls of sintered snow form two concentric circles, creating a path that winds into an intimate central space, transitioning from views of the city to an abstraction of northern landscape. The shape of the inner space is derived by imagining a circle of people gathered around a fire. The shape of the room also serves to frame the sky. At times when the Aurora is active overhead, the fire will be quelled to focus the view of the sky which is the ceiling of this intimate room. molo anticipates that interesting things will be experienced acknowledging the perception of scale, connecting the vast celestial sphere with human dimensions.