ABSTRACT

The cyclical alternation of weather as seen from Junya Ishigami’s House of Wind & Rain is abstracted as an enduring dispute between comfort and discomfort. Within this dispute, Mediation is deemed as the act of Give & Take, whereby everything comes with a price - with comfort comes discomfort.

 

INVESTIGATION

It is human nature to gravitate towards the best comfort available to us. Rather than designing the envelope purely from a comfort standpoint, we wanted to exploit this inherent human nature by putting it to the test through an envelope that celebrates the coexistence of comfort and discomfort  to observe how people respond differently when confronted with spaces of contention. Hence, we wished to investigate how the complexity of a dilemma could be presented through an envelope that worked in conjunction with the environment to provide comfort within discomfort.  Comfort and discomfort will be manipulated through ceiling heights and rain.

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CLIMATIC RESPONSE

By focusing on the element of rain and the discomfort it brings, the project explores how the envelope responds as a mediator that celebrates the coexistence of comfort and discomfort through the control of rain. Visitors will face the decision of choosing “the lesser evil” caused by conflicting discomforts within the envelope, emphasizing the individuality of their personal preference of comfort.

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As featured on:

https://cde.nus.edu.sg/arch-ucdl/designs/the-lesser-evil/