While bio-design typically posits to create architecture resembling nature or natural processes, i/thee has taken the challenge literally - ‘ghost house’ doesn’t just look like a curtain blowing in the wind it is a curtain blowing in the wind. ‘it is an improbable structure: a representation of the past existing in the present, neither here nor there the ghost of a house’. ‘the final result is a three-dimensional snapshot of a specific moment in time,’ the designers share. finally, cubic apertures were cut from the canvases, to further reference the formal memory of a house. over the course of a few hours, these sheets froze into solid objects while blowing in the strong mountain winds. the construction began with the erection of light wooden frames to create the formal outlines of two small houses, and then, custom-cut canvas sheets were soaked in non-toxic adhesive and draped over the frames. ‘ghost house’ by i/thee was conceived as an experiment in material manipulation, the form of which is directly dependent on the weather, environment, as well as time itself. the resulting structure emerges as a poetic expression that questions outstanding notions of authorship in design, inviting weather, and the environment as an active participant in the process. the project was executed as part of design laboratory space saloon’s 2018 mobile education camp that asked participants to construct installations investigating notions of context as they relate to environmental factors. Design collaborative i/thee introduces ‘ghost house’, a wooden installation covered with windblown sheets that studies the relationship between architecture and the wind at california’s high desert.
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