Project Description

the ENERGY CRISIS explores environmental and ecological mapping by filtering, processing, and re-imagining data sets on pollution, heat stress, and vegetative cover to reveal conflation intensities as a modality for architectural strategy. By the rethinking of elements such as humidity, light, and heat in micro-climatic conditions as spatial dimensions, the amplification of invisible environmental boundaries visualizes the unseen and produces a marketplace that operates cyclically in a constant state of decay and regrowth. Through the active exchange of biomaterials between user and market, the user’s awareness of their intrinsic interconnectivity with the earth and its energy is raised forming a marketplace at the intersection of biology, ecology, physiology, and architecture. The project seeks to regain agency for the environment in this struggle between humanity and Earth by utilizing technology not to exploit and overshadow environmental conditions but rather bring them to the surface for public visualization and awareness.