Breathing Fabric

R&Sie(n)

R&Sie(n) is a Paris-based architectural practice which 'incorporate instability, entropy and the hybridisation of the vegetal and biological into their practice'. AD, Territory www.new-territories.com

Dew Catcher Renders

Ice Details

Dew Catcher

Sketch

Mist Photography

Temperature, Light and Humidity

Digestible Gulf Stream, Venice Biennale 2008

Philippe Rahm uses temperature, light and humidity as tools to create subtle, nearly invisible architecture- 'could architecture be reconfigured through sustainable development to become not the place of the artificial but the place of nature? A second nature, geological, chemical, where nature would not be outside the architecture but inside it.' Philippe Rahm in Icon Manifesto

Unbalanced Boundaries at Wates House

‘Unbalanced boundaries’ implies a condition in which an external actor has intervened in a balanced system and altered the environment resulting in the state of the boundary to become that of an unbalanced nature. Inherent in the unbalanced state is a constant search for equilibrium, a balance which is determined by internal and external parameters and perhaps achieved by adding another element or changing the conditions in which the unbalanced boundary exists. The transition from an unbalanced state to equilibrium exists within the relationship between time and energy.

The ‘Unbalanced Boundaries’ project will commence with a material exploration of water, not water as such but the state of water transforming from one state to another; vapour, liquid and solid. Pressure, temperature and humidity are factors that influence these inevitable transformations of the unbalanced system.