Meteorological Architecture

Rahm, Philippe (author)

Architectural Design ; 79 ; 30-41

2009-05-01

12 pages

1554-2769 , 0003-8504

https://doi.org/10.1002/ad.885

Article (Journal)

Electronic Resource

English

Two horizontal metal planes , allow seasonal movement within the house , a convection movement , a shift from the visible towards the invisible , spaces in the house are plastic and climatically dynamic , humidity , sensations of hot and cold , restore diversity , Raphael , simultaneously gastronomic and thermal , Leon Battista Alberti , ‘storytelling’ , Architecture is a thermodynamic mediation , opening climates and interpretations , invisible landscape , immersion of the inhabitants' bodies in the humid and variable body of the space , Digestible Gulf Stream , architecture that works between the neurologic and the atmospheric , Philippe Rahm architectes , a landscape of heat , holiday homes on Lake Vassiviére , freely appropriable , invent a new sort of plan. , chilli and camphor , ‘non‐adjectival’ landscapes , Interior Gulf Stream, Research House for Dominique Gonzalez‐Foerster , Mollier Houses , constant thermal flow , menthol , convection , stimulating a sense of coolness with the mind , stratification of the levels of humidity within the space , the hydrometric layering of the landscape