WEATHERIZING
Detroit, Michigan
As a material study and electrical experimentation, this alteration to a stand-alone garage mutates and activates the barrier between the atmospheres of the interior, and the greater surroundings on the exterior. As a replacement of the common flat-pane windows, Weatherizing utilizes the typical mediator of glass in an unusual configuration allowing for an altered understanding of volume and exchange. Comprised of nearly one thousand glass tubes, the work spatializes and amplifies light conditions, both natural and artificial, and the flow of air. Varying in length and bends, the aggregation of the glass tubes works as a material substrate upon which energy is captured in the form of a glow, and an accumulation of hollow channels conduits for energy, air, and precipitation. Mysterious and moody, reliant on the immediate qualities of the atmospheres, the luminosity becomes an eerie registration of the seemingly intangible surrounds and a foil to the once apathetic barrier.
This project was supported by the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Oberdick Fellowship.