Design and Realisation of the Outdoor Intrance Area of ICEHOTEL#36 - 2025/26, Jukkasjärvi, Lappland, Sweden

“Undulating positive and negative waveforms create a dynamic interplay of light and shadow, capturing the essence of water in its frozen state thus becoming a metaphor and an experience — an atmospheric introduction that prepares guests for what lies beyond.”

WAVE is the threshold between worlds – a passage where solid compressed snow and the aesthetics of flowing motion merge into a single immersive experience. As guests walk towards and enter the outdoor entrance area, they are enveloped by sculpted walls undulating in a rhythmic interplay of positive and negative, concave and convex waveforms, which evoke the perpetual movement of water, capturing its essence in frozen state of being, bridging the ephemeral nature of water and its timeless stillness. 

In this context, WAVE reinforces the idea of a subtle but powerful force moving beneath the surface — an undercurrent and momentum embodied in the waveforms that carry guests forward, guiding them through a dynamic corridor of geometric rhythm, light and shadow preparing them for the depths of the Icehotel. WAVE is more than an entrance; it is an initiation. It reminds visitors of the material’s origin, here appearing in its aggregate state, frozen in time yet full of movement.