The Rainy Pavilion
is an inhabitable environmental apparatus that makes the relationship between bodies, architecture, and weather perceptible.
Humans have always used tools to negotiate with climate, and architecture is perhaps our largest environmental apparatus. Buildings continuously edit weather into inhabitable climates, yet the mechanisms that produce these conditions are largely backgrounded. As inhabitants, we experience the result—comfort—while rarely perceiving the processes that produce it.
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What if climatic mediation were brought back into perception?
Making to Question
Humans have always used tools to negotiate with climate, and architecture is perhaps our largest environmental apparatus. Buildings continuously edit weather into inhabitable climates, yet the mechanisms that produce these conditions are largely backgrounded. As inhabitants, we experience the result—comfort—while rarely perceiving the processes that produce it.
What if climatic mediation were brought back into perception?
01 Exposing Support
02 Support as Composition
03 Support as Field
In this model-scale demonstration, I was unable to achieve the pressure level for the water to spray, resulting in a partial 'failure.'
2023 Spring
Tokyo, Japan
Advisor: Jesse Reiser