Phenomenological Reviews

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Architecture as a habitable medium

Elizabeth DillerRichardo Scofidio

pp. 184-195

Abstract

The Blur Building is an exhibition pavilion built for Swiss Expo 2002 on Lake Neuchatel in the town of Yverdon-les-Bains. It is an architecture of atmosphere. Its lightweight tensegrity structure measures 300 ft wide by 200 ft deep by 75 ft high. It streches over a total of 80,000 square feet. The primary building material is indigenous to the site, water. Water is pumped from the lake, filtered, and shot as a fine mist through a dense array of high-pressure mist nozzles. The resulting fog mass produced is a dynamic interplay of natural and man-made forces.

Publication details

Published in:

Flachbart Georg, Weibel Peter (2005) Disappearing architecture: from real to virtual to quantum. Basel, Birkhäuser.

Pages: 184-195

DOI: 10.1007/3-7643-7674-0_16

Full citation:

Diller Elizabeth, Scofidio Richardo (2005) „Architecture as a habitable medium“, In: G. Flachbart & P. Weibel (eds.), Disappearing architecture, Basel, Birkhäuser, 184–195.