How can architecture create dignified, scalable, and sustainable living conditions in one of Nairobi’s most constrained informal settlements?
Sky To Earth
INSTALLATION ART ARCHITECTURE, PUBLIC REALM, OUTSIDER ART, CONTEMPORARY ART (2020)
Project Description
Sky to earth serves as an installation to amplify the participation from the sky which materializes on earth. The intervention creates a boundary at which the visitor can focus and become aware of the sky’s influence on our environment through the structure. The tender meeting between the sky’s participation and the earth's gravitational pull became an interest through that very participation from the sky, which mediates and serves our hydrologic cycles that are maintaining our ecosystem. Large glass hollow beams are at the main frontier of the design. As time passes these beams collect snow and icicle formation. The reason for the slight height variation of the beams is to produce an entrance in the colder seasons where the sun on the north is more dominant. This would allow the installation to be year-round without being completely frozen. The plans show the pools which get frozen due to the weather conditions. They intend to mirror the sky through the open ceiling, allowing visitors to walk above them.
Project Details
Project Date:
Fall, 2020
Medium:
Tangible Cracked
Intangible Cold
Professor's
Felix Heisel
Sasa Zivkovic
University:
Cornell University AAP

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