Political Climates

In collaboration with Natalia O'Neill-Vega and Haley Koesters

Featured in the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, koozarch.com, afasia.com

Awarded the Margaret Everson-Fossi Traveling Scholarship

The Political Climates Parliament legislates climate change policy for the Indo Pacific Region. It demonstrates that our current environment is at risk while also highlighting how climate change has real responses on humans and animals. The parliament creates a dangerously alluring reality, a place where different microclimates seem to exist in “relative harmony” with a collection of plants and animals that wouldn’t necessarily exist under, what we understand as, “natural” conditions. Within the infinite interior month long forums are coordinated through careful calibration of mechanical systems, which include the mediation of elements such as water, dust, smog, sounds, CO2, temperature, and humidity. 413 parliament representatives, 1 from each autonomous coastal region of the Indo Pacific, attend two different types of meeting - demonstration meetings, where effects of climate change are demonstrated, and policy meetings, where a series of line items are discussed and decided on.

Professor: Urtzi Grau and Guillermo Fernández-Abascal

 

 

Project site composed of various environmental conditions.

Project site composed of various environmental conditions.

Section of project depicting three different time frames in order to illustrate the effects of climatic conditions on the decision making process. 

Section of project depicting three different time frames in order to illustrate the effects of climatic conditions on the decision making process. 

Axonometric of the parliament's interior illustrates the blurring of climatic condition due to decisions made by parliamentary members. 

Axonometric of the parliament's interior illustrates the blurring of climatic condition due to decisions made by parliamentary members. 

Interior ground perspective showing a demonstration of increased CO2 on animals, specifically the chirping of birds. 

Interior ground perspective showing a demonstration of increased CO2 on animals, specifically the chirping of birds. 

The mechanics distributing the interior climates along with the drones which collect information from meetings and the public in order to control the mechanical system.

The mechanics distributing the interior climates along with the drones which collect information from meetings and the public in order to control the mechanical system.

Roof facade, a public interface which allows those occupying it to directly interact with and influence the effects of the decisions made during parliamentary meetings. 

Roof facade, a public interface which allows those occupying it to directly interact with and influence the effects of the decisions made during parliamentary meetings.