WHITE CONTINUUM - where water pauses and we move

2026 Warming Huts - Invited Artist - Winning Project of the Arts and Architecture Competition on Ice in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Shaped entirely from compacted snow, it invites skaters and walkers to move through an open-air igloo of shifting light, sound, and temperature. Minimal in form yet monumental in presence, Continuum creates an immersive winter experience along the river trail.

Snow
33,30m long x 3,7m wide

The work spanned more than 30 meters across the frozen Assiniboine River and was conceived as a continuous architectural space—minimal, precise, and deliberately temporary. Viewers become an integral part of the whole: they walk through the corridor, experiencing space, material, light, sound, and temperature, and perceiving the very moment of transition. The installation weaves together architecture, nature, and time into an experience that is as fleeting as it is profound—an experiential echo of the eternal flow in which all things emerge, pass away, and return.

One and All
All must move in living creation,
First take form, then transformation;
Only seeming is momentary rest.
The Eternal moves through all things ever:
For all must fall into Nothingness,
If it would persist forever in Being.
Goethe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHITE CONTINUUM, 2026

2026 Winning Project for Warming Huts the Arts and Architecture Competition on Ice, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

33,30m long x 3,7m wide

Renowned for her sculptural works that transform simple forms into immersive experiences, Franziska brings her hut, Continuum, to this year’s lineup.

“It is a snow corridor shaped entirely of compacted snow,” says Agrawal, “It invites the audience to move through and have a spatial experience of temperatures, volume, light, and sound.”

The White Continuum, a winning installation for Winnipeg’s celebrated
Warming Huts competition, is a 30-meter architectural snow corridor by
artist and designer Franziska Agrawal. Formed as a long rectangular white
line across the frozen Assiniboine River, the piece transforms the river trail
into an immersive “continuous whole” spatial experience. Shaped entirely
from compacted snow, it recalls an open-air igloo, inviting skaters and
walkers to move through a Sub-Zero Promenade of shifting light, sound,
and temperature. Minimal in form yet monumental in presence, the art
installation reflects Agrawal’s ongoing exploration of ephemeral materials,
public space, and winter’s unique architectural potential.