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About Antarctic Station

Antarctic Station distills the design language of Halley VI — the world's first relocatable polar research base — into a digital system. A string of standardised blue habitat and lab modules sits raised on hydraulic skis over wind-packed snow, with a single two-storey red social module as a deliberate morale accent.

The system speaks in cold blue-white snow grounds, RAL signal-red as a point accent, and clean engineered grotesques for signage-grade wayfinding. Red is a signal, never the field; the palette stays cold, flat, and precise like polar light.

Learn more about the Antarctic Station style

Origin
Antarctic ice shelf / Brunt Ice Shelf, Weddell Sea
Era
2010–now (Halley VI opened 2012–13)
Key figures
Hugh Broughton Architects · British Antarctic Survey · AECOM (engineering)
Movements
High-latitude modular research architecture · Extreme-environment engineering design · Modernist wayfinding

Antarctic Station design spec

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Surface
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Typography

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IBM Plex SansBody
IBM Plex MonoMono
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