U of M warming up the ice

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Students in the University of Manitoba departments of architecture and engineering have teamed up to create a warm warming hut for the Red River Mutual Trail.  

The Partners Program’s “Basket” hut features a large south-facing window that will optimize solar gain and  make for a warm hut on the frosty river trail, according to a release. The hut was designed by project leads Mark Pauls, Michael Robertson and Dr. Mohamad Araji, and group members Ting Ting Ng, Alyssa Magas, Brennan Fedak, Sum Yu Lee, Kassandra Swan, Tyler Jones and Mamie Griffiths.

Also on the river this year will be the U of M’s Fabrigami, a multi-disciplinary research project that uses the natural environment to make a structure.

It is designed by project leads Lancelot Coar, Kim Wiese and Jason Hare from the University of Manitoba as well as Caitlin Mueller from MIT and Lars De Laet at Vrije University, and group members Brendan Dyck, Cameron Cummings, Janelle Harper, Collin Lamoureux, Mateo Linares, Katryna Lipinski, Stephen Oberlin, Scott Shanks, Erica Ulrich, Thea Pedersen, Daryl Randa, Evan Schellenberg, Francis Garcia, Benjamine Bosiak, Melissa Tssessaze and Zoé Lebel.
Huts are expected to be built on the river in January.

— Staff