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the beastie
Many “beasts” are known to have emerged during moments of climatic disruptions. The appearance of literary creatures such as Count Dracula, Jack the Ripper, Frankenstein, and Godzilla, is claimed to have been synchronized with moments of atmospheric anomalies such as thick air from dense airborne pollution and sulfurous skies, diurnal darkness, steady temperature decline and radioactive fallout. Embodying fear or awe, these “beasts” are mirrors of one’s relation with the disrupted atmosphere. The beastie follows in this tradition—a pavilion born out of our present-day climate confusions.
Marrying the heaven with the earth, the beastie is a climatic offspring: it transforms solar heat into ice. A thermally interactive pavilion with its own energy input and self-regulating mechanisms, the beastie is in constant interaction with outdoor temperatures and the heat from visitors’ bodies and breath. The structure collects solar heat through photovoltaic panels, which power a compression chiller. This process separates cold from heat. Chilled fluids run through a forest of radiant pipes. The chilled pipes accumulate a covering of ice, creating a series of thermal thresholds and grottoes conditioned by insulating curtains and iridescent PVC strips on movable tracks. With its gradients of cold and its cooling, soothing spaces, the beastie delights while offering relief to visitors during hot summer days. As its interior spaces fill with visitors, the temperatures rise and fall—the ice melts in thermal interaction with the visitors' bodies, reminding us that we impact the world we live within; and, like the ice, of our bodies’ vulnerabilities, pleasures and constraints.
In collaboration with Transsolar [Climate Engineering], Kipp Bradford [Thermal systems], Knippers Helbig [Structural Engineering]
Marrying the heaven with the earth, the beastie is a climatic offspring: it transforms solar heat into ice. A thermally interactive pavilion with its own energy input and self-regulating mechanisms, the beastie is in constant interaction with outdoor temperatures and the heat from visitors’ bodies and breath. The structure collects solar heat through photovoltaic panels, which power a compression chiller. This process separates cold from heat. Chilled fluids run through a forest of radiant pipes. The chilled pipes accumulate a covering of ice, creating a series of thermal thresholds and grottoes conditioned by insulating curtains and iridescent PVC strips on movable tracks. With its gradients of cold and its cooling, soothing spaces, the beastie delights while offering relief to visitors during hot summer days. As its interior spaces fill with visitors, the temperatures rise and fall—the ice melts in thermal interaction with the visitors' bodies, reminding us that we impact the world we live within; and, like the ice, of our bodies’ vulnerabilities, pleasures and constraints.
In collaboration with Transsolar [Climate Engineering], Kipp Bradford [Thermal systems], Knippers Helbig [Structural Engineering]
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