With climate change, the volume and nature of snowfall in Boston is changing. The project puts Boston politicians, who are to some extent responsible for changes to local climate and pollution, inside a snow structure. In this way, they are in a building of their own making, as the snow will be more polluted if they fail to curb emissions or melt more quickly if uninsulated buildings create an unnaturally warm microclimate. The project explores how a large-scale predominantly snow structure might be built and inhabited. This is explored through physical tests with snow and ice, computer simulations of snowfall, and research into building techniques of near-arctic societies and ski slopes. The structure only lasts half the year before melting and being rebuilt. Moveable components allow for the plan to be reconfigurable, changing with programmatic requirements such as hosting rallies for local mayoral elections or adapting to changing snowfall levels.

Taking place on Boston City Hall Plaza, the Snow Council and its infrastructures play a key part in both communicating climate change to Bostonians and allowing them to relate to and express themselves in relation to climate change. Visibly melting forms produce an easily comprehensible metaphor that can be translated into action through active encouragement of construction of protest structures.