The ice fishing shack is an interesting building typology – the conditions and environment are very limiting in terms of design. The shack must be placed on the frozen lake and be removed before the ice melts. The Ice Shanty takes the form of the typical ice shack, but remains only a transparent skeleton until it is filled with snow and ice blocks made on site. With found materials the shanty transforms from a rather useless architectural folly to a protective shelter.

The most important prefabricated part is the bent aluminum wall unit. When the approx. 350 of these pieces are locked together, they alone form the walls of the shanty. There are a few special pieces that connect this system of pieces to the roof and floor. The floor is simply a wood deck, and the roof is a series of sandwich panels which unfold at the ridge and are bolted to the structure.