ABSTRACT
The variations on the Winnipeg Skate Shelters were designed for the Dover Street Market Ginza, in Tokyo, Japan. As with the skate shelters these units are freestanding and are intended to serve as changing rooms and displays throughout the store. Each cocoon mimics the same form developed in plywood for the skate shelters but was created using 18 gauge stainless steel patterns which were rolled to match the geometry of the shelters. As Menges used sophisticated testing equipment in the Institute for Computational Design (ICD)/Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) Pavilion, Patkau Architects used decidedly analog methods for the development of these small shelters designed to slide along the frozen Red and Assinboine River skating trials. Each winter the City plows these trails along the rivers to create skating paths. Each of the six shelters were designed not through a series of full-scale tests as is typical, but with a variety of scaled models cut in wood veneer.
