thesis_abstract

Weather is the state of the atmosphere at a specific location at a certain time, which is occurred by meteorologic variables such as air flow and pressure (wind), moisture, temperature, and cloudiness.  Due to its instability and constant change in condition, weather is considered as a highly uncontrollable and unpredictable environment. 
 
It is common to think that weather is beyond human scale and capability to control and predict.  However, human has developed the ability to control the conditions of weather.  For example, recent climate change in Asian region is, in fact, caused by excessive human activities.  Also new scientific technology to optimize the condition of ionosphere such as cloud seeding and many attempts to create weather control system for the military such as weaponized weather show the possibility of controlling the weather, and furthermore the climate.
 
Then what if architects become a creator/controller of the (dynamic) weather and at the same time, a designer/producer of a refuge from this artificial weather?  Architecture has been developed as a means to provide a shelter from exterior, which separates one from the extreme weather.  Therefore an architect has designed an interior space that provides an adequate  environment surrounded by separating walls, which isolates one from the exterior (natural) weather.  However, it would create an unusual relationship between weather and architecture, and hermetic and reactive atmosphere/environment, if architects design artificial weather conditions, and utilize the specific characteristics of these weather conditions.
 
Thus this thesis will use the weather as an agent to create a fluctuating relationship between atmosphere/environment and architecture.  Also it will explore transformed conditions and revised notions of architecture, as producing a hermetic refuge that encloses the interior to account for the extremes as well as creating a responsive object that opens up to the extremes.

The format of weather maps to explain the artificial conditions designed by architects and the graphs/charts of scientific data will be developed in architectural format drawings as an approach to explore the relationship/connection between the weather conditions and architecture, and as a methodology to study new notion of weather and architecture.  Also for further investigation of this thesis,  the particular conditions of artificial weather and architecture should be developed as an artifact to explain the thesis.  Possibly the exploration in the existing technologies in meteorology of creating artificial weather will be considered as well.