Samenvatting

The Icelandic landscape is facing increased pressure in a geopolitical situation where energy policies and increasing tourism lead to infrastructural development and ecological adaptation. Tectonic plates and glaciers create renewable Energy industries in Iceland. They rely on considerable renewable energy resources, particularly geothermal and hydropower. The opportunities to create new forms of integration between energy exploitation and the landscape are unique in Iceland’s geology, and offer challenges to explore the intersection between industrial environments and the landscape system. The outcome of using temperature as design material creates a new architectural language that enriches the countries identical landscape and unveils the originating core of Iceland. By analyzing the process of energy production temperature occurs in two different stages: water and steam. Both stages are used to set a new architectural language, where hot steam rises and water descents to the lowest point. These characteristics are applied in the buildings, built from modular granite blocks, offering different configurations for stay and recreation.