We do not live in a mono-climatic world.
Even today with our extensive air-conditioning systems and hermetically sealed buildings, invisible and immaterial climatic zones are an everyday reality. Each interior room in a given house or building is a striated field of micro-climates.
We feel that each climatic quality (warm, cool, humid, dry, fragrant, etc.) can be designed and controlled with a certain degree of flexibility. By strategically increasing the temperature difference at a small scale we can control air velocity and direction. We can also embed micro-climates into larger macro-flows to create gradients of heterogeneous and homogeneous environments when needed.
When aggregated to a larger scale, program becomes semi-nomadic, often relocating within the buildint at different times of the day and year and the public/private dichotomy is almost entirely erased. We use three systems to this end: heat collecting pods direct convective flows, the external skin becomes a system of louvers, partitions dematerialize and direct air circulation where needed. The architecture becomes focused on sun-angles, convection, air pressure and fully participant in controlling and celebrating well-tempered micro climates.
System Diagram and Section
Full Scale Prototyping
Work done in partnership with Brian Love. Sean Lally; Studio Fall 2007
