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Cloudscapes by Tetsuo Kondo Architects and Transsolar
Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Japanese studio Tetsuo Kondo Architects and environmental engineering firm Transsolar have suspended a cloud inside the Arsenale exhibition space at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
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Called Cloudscapes, the installation is created by pumping three layers of air into the space: cold dry air at the bottom, hot humid air in the middle and hot dry air at the top.
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Above photographs are copyright Marco Zanta.
A spiral walkway guides visitors up through the layers to emerge above the cloud, before they descend back down through the vapour to the floor.
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The installation forms part of the exhibition People Meet in Architecture, directed by Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA (see our earlier Dezeenwire story).
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The information that follows is from Tetsuo Kondo Architects:
Cloudscapes
Creating clouds indoors is only possible through climate engineering, by applying physical principles at the building scale.
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By replacing pressure differences an temperature gradients in the atmosphere with mechanically controlled heat and humidity, the air in Cloudscapes is divided into three distinct layers.
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