Atmosphere
The objective of this project is to design a weather research facility and domestic quarters for visiting scientists that register and transform the relationship between the inhabitants and their environment.
“Where, if not from the Impressionists, do we get those wonderful brown fogs that come creeping down our streets, blurring the gas-lamps and changing the houses into monstrous shadows? To whom, if not to them and their master, do we owe the lovely silver mists that brood over our river, and turn to faint forms of fading grace curved bridge and swaying barge? The extraordinary change that has taken place in the climate of London during the last ten years is entirely due to this particular school of Art. … At present, people see fogs, not because there are fogs, but because poets and painters have taught them the mysterious loveliness of such effects. There may have been fogs for centuries in London. I dare say there were. But no one saw them, and so we do not know anything about them. They did not exist till Art had invented them.”
-Oscar Wilde in The Decay of Lying.
The objective of this project is to design a weather research facility and domestic quarters for visiting scientists that register and transform the relationship between the inhabitants and their environment. Our investigation of atmosphere will focus on notions of boundary and observation. We will consider exposure and protection as spatial and psychological conditions, and define acts of research and observation in the laboratory and home.
Chris Barley
Seung Taek Lee
Otis Berkin
Students:
Christopher Barley
Otis Berkin
Lauren Des Rosiers
Michael Eisenwasser
Rychiee Espinosa
Jin Pyo Eun
Kyung Jae Kim
Seung Teak Lee
Olivia Ramos
Dino Rossi
Daniel Ruzeu
Miriam Ward
Master of Architecture Core 1 Studio