Cold Frame was proposed as a temporary exhibit for the 2016 edition of Winter Stations. Responding to the dismantling of Douglas Cardinal’s neighbouring project “Community Fire Pit”, during Winter Stations 2015, Cold Frame was designed to to be taken apart and used as firewood during the course of the festival. Each wall of the structure was to be made from reclaimed urban wood that had been removed from the urban canopy, surrounding a central firepit.

Each year nearly 200,000 trees in the City of Toronto die of natural causes, are felled by storms, removed for safety reasons or killed by diseases and pests. Cold Frame was designed to repurpose this wood into interlocking modular cubes, with flat panels for seating and storing stacks of rough wood. Viewers could remove the stacked wood from without interrupting the integrity of the structure. Over the course of the exhibition, the wood would be burned, leaving a skeletal structure of the house remaining.