The wallpaper was designed to move organically, just as the ADU’s bedroom and kitchen blocks. The wallpaper flows to mimic fabric’s natural properties, while the two ADU blocks wrinkle horizontally, allowing the poche to thicken and create spaces for storage, shelving, light to bounce around, etc.

Polar Bear denning usually begins in early winter. Typically, these maternity dens are dug into snow banks, often on south-facing slopes near the coast. The largest dens may be three feet high, over eight feet wide and ten feet long inside. These chambers are generally oval rooms connected by an entrance tunnel leading in. Because of the insulating qualities of snow, the heat given off by a denning bear may raise the den’s air temperature to as high as 40 degrees Fahrenheit, even when outside temperatures are far below freezing. (Churchill Polar Bears).

The Polar Bear den design (below) incorporated many aspects of the actual denning that was found through research. For instance, the right portion of the model was lowered in order to accentuate the entrance tunnel, and multiple chambers/pockets were added into the design to represent the cubs’ space. Lastly, the wallpaper from Project 1 was projected into the model to represent claw marks which are found in and around polar bear dens.