Fellowships
Catie Newell
Project Title
Weatherizing
About the Project
As a material study and electrical experimentation, this project mutates and activates the barrier between the atmospheres of the interior, and the greater surroundings on the exterior. As a replacement of the common flat-pane windows, the project utilizes the typical mediator of glass in an unusual configuration allowing for an altered understanding of volume and exchange. Comprised of nearly one thousand glass tubes, the project spatializes and amplifies light conditions, both natural and artificial, and the flow of air. Varying in length and bends, the aggregation of the glass tubes works as a material substrate upon which energy is captured in the form of a glow and passes through a collection of hollow channels conduits for air and precipitation. Mysterious and moody, reliant on the immediate qualities of the atmosphere, the luminosity becomes an eerie registration of the seemingly intangible surrounds and a foil to the once apathetic barrier.
