This remote science facility was the result of an intensive and collaborative design competition for Brazil’s Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station. The new 32,400 square-foot research/living/working habitat with separate operations and maintenance facilities of 11,300 square feet is located on the Keller Peninsula, King George Island,...
In 2006, Ferraro Choi participated in a competitive selection process for the design of a new 25-person Antarctic research station for India’s National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR). Ferraro Choi was invited to the table because of the firm’s deep experience in designing...
Completed in 2010, the new Amundsen-Scott station is strategically situated at the geographic South Pole, at an elevation of 2,800 meters. The station sits on a 2700-meter-thick glacier that moves with a velocity of 11 meters per year. It is one of the premier...