How do we create an occupiable space that is 15° warmer for less than $20?
January 2015 (One week project)
Insulation blankets, rubbish bags, tape & wood
200cm x 200cm
Project built in collaboration with Yoonseo Cha & Elie Boutros (Professor Aleksandr Mergold, Cornell University)
The project involves the creation of an installation that mediates the temperature between the outside and its interior, the project was budgeted and the space must be at least 15 degrees warmer than the outside. The project made use of the existing vents on campus. We trapped the hot air expelled by the vents, thus making large inflatable blanket rooms for three inhabitants. The interior spaces were made warmer with silver insulation blankets which also gave the project a nice, mirrored accent.
We designed and built this together, I thought of the idea of using the hot air from vents to insulate the space. I also designed the connection detail between the structural frames.
The installation forms a dialogue with the Cornell University Clock Tower.
A series of images showing how one occupies the installation.
Photograph of the installation being occupied.
Photograph detailing the connection detail between the structural frame.
Photograph detailing the connection detail between the structural frame.
Initial sketches of the design concept. Photograph detailing the connection detail between the structural frame.
