Exhibition in the Sottsass room of the CCA
September 2000 to January 2001

Through a series of interventions, this installation was intended to bring to light, architecturally, relationships between nature and the built environment.

The first one of the four interventions was the sensor, which was placed on the front lawn of the Shaughnessy House. This nervous, hypersensitive device, large enough to have a presence through the window of the front room, revealed variations in environmental conditions created by the sun, the wind, and the rain.

The gathered information was transmitted over a grid of cables to the second structure, the Register, which was placed in the Sottsass Room at the entrance to the exhibition. This structure converted and transmitted the environmental data to the visitors in the form of sound and light which completely transformed the atmosphere of the room.

The third intervention was a window box placed in the window of the Shaughnessy House, piercing the hermetically sealed envelope of the exhibition space. Arranged in such a way that visitors were able to see the sensor and the window box at the same time; the intevention demonstrated how difficult it was to draw fresh air through an open window within such a controlled environment.

The last intervention appropriated the existing shutters of the other window, which were fitted with mechanisms that responded to varying conditions of daylight and activity within the room. This drew the visitors to the boundary between inside and outside, establishing a connection between the two.

Reference: CCA