2024 Ice Stations: Ad Astra (O’Gorman)

With the 2024-25 academic year fast approaching, the MSoA is sharing beautiful photos and videos to celebrate this past year’s Ice Stations.

This project was designed and then built and installed by 1st year architecture students at Bell Park this winter (due to the unusually warm weather, the Ice Stations were not installed on Ramsey Lake are they usually are). Below are photos of the project and the video put together by the students which documented their entire Ice Station design-build process, from early ideas to the installation at Bell Park. This year, the Ice Stations were made with a minimum of 25% reused wood materials from previous MSoA projects, in order to reduce their environmental impact.

To make this project a reality, 1st year students had to learn how to use a range of fabrication tools, how to generate timber themselves using raw wood components, how to estimate construction costs and construction scheduling in order to respect a budget and a deadline.

This station is called “Ad Astra” and was designed and built by the students in Tristan O’Gorman’s studio group: Amber Behun, Zoe Blair, Lauren Cailipan, Balshar Chohan, Aidan Evans, Sergio Gutierrez, Mathuri Muhunthan, Vansi Patel, Malcolm Rietze, Priya Shah, Tianna Stevens, and Ali Tolba.

The Ice Stations are made possible thanks to the generous support of our main sponsor TD Bank, as well as the City of Greater Sudbury, which hosts the students projects, and Interfor, which supplies the wood.