“By controlling the microclimate of the space in the arsenale building, a layer of artificial clouds is made to hover above the ground level, remaining in balance above the heads of the viewers.”
The installation certainly awed the visitors. I have made a small film trying to convey the experience by altering the red color filter intensity trying to associate the visual perception and the thermoception.
Transsolar Cloudscape at 12th Venice Biennale from Differentenergy on Vimeo.
Haha looks like someone hotboxed the Biennale.
ReplyDeleteBut in all seriousness, a very dynamic environment. However, your video also reveals the limited capabilities of our visual sense. I can only imagine how the change in temp + RH truly feels like, but like Chef Emeril used to say on his cooking show: "Too bad it's only television, and not smellavision", I too feel short-changed by my computer screen. Here is an example in which the visual sense is challenged. Even if this video was in high def, I cannot solely understand the space if you had not explained it in your post. If a blind person or someone with very limited sight walked through the entire installation, they would have 10x more understanding of the space than I, a person watching a walkthrough from a laptop, would.
I was thinking, what if the physical appearance of the built installation changed in conjunction with the environmental change as one moves up the ramp? If certain architectural/structural interventions were introduced either in a gradual "evolving" manner ascending the ramp, or a segmented change in appearance (whatever matches closer to the actual environmental experience), how would this change the installation as a whole? One might argue that the visual change will only reduce the environmental experience of temperature + RH, but I see an opportunity for the introduction of another experience, the tactile sense. Altering the physical features of the ramp allows visitors to touch and feel the spaces as the temp + RH are changing,inducing the mind to assign a texture to a certan environmental experience. (Mayben the visitor even enters barefoot, so that your tactile sense is ALWAYS initiated".
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