THE THEATRE OF WEATHER PERFORMANCES

This proposal has a range of open, semi-enclosed and enclosed spaces that respect the existing Museum of the Home through the framing of key viewpoints and poetic celebration of weather experiences through pavilions and landscape design. The work was developed through collages, model making and photography, and harmoniously connects with the earlier project that explored ideas of transparencies. Weather is considered through three on-site pavilions that simultaneously perform as a promenade to the formal theatre. These are the Constellation Cave which celebrates light; Rain Ripple that manipulates water reflections through wind; and Rain Wall Archway with a thin copper roof that collects, frames and amplifies the turbulence of the rain, resulting in a wall of water. This façade wall is dually a backdrop for the landscape and an open theatre, the latter further framing the existing chapel. The architecture provides for the cultural communities and extracurricular activities for educational institutions in the area. The anticipation of different weather conditions at each unique moment ensures that the user experience will never be static.