Interpreting Atmosphere: Kettle House
January 2017
The Wounded Pot
A belly a wounded pot
Perforated
Robust against explosions
A wooden base like kindling beneath
Dark ready for activity
Alive with the fiery white light above
And I want to rise up there
Break the tension
Away from the tiered container of stages and booths below
The empty benches and tables
With sockets underneath
Leading to Other Worlds and Places
where dust and mice can gather
around coils of Writhing data
Into the deep concrete hatches
that weave a maze of heaven
Below I am squeezed together
In queues in rows in sequence
In dizzy artificial light
That flows and jitters like people
Under words that press the space together
Like a strap for a fragile structure
Metal pipes and contraptions
zigzag with digestion
I feel the world has been turned upside down
And needs to be set right
The canned music and artificial food
A stoppered belly
Whose too light floors can give way
To day without light
Instead it must to be emptied out
into the sky
poem by Brigitte O’Regan
model by Wouter Pijnenburg, Inés Hemmings, Kim Degen, Brigitte O’Regan
On Nov 22nd, 2016, a one-day workshop ‘Interpreting Atmosphere’ was held at the Faculty of Architecture in Delft. The workshop allowed 20 students to get acquainted with the theme of atmosphere in architecture, an architectural aspect that often remains unaddressed in education. In contemporary architectural practice we can recognise a renewed interest in the intrinsic relation between atmospheric experience and architectural quality.
The workshop challenged students to interpret the atmosphere of multiple spaces within the faculty. The spaces were translated into texts describing the personal experience of every participant. Afterwards the texts were translated into a spatial object by the group, representing the common experience of the atmosphere.
Organised by EXPLORE-lab students:
Danique van Hulst
Marthe van Gils
Hinke Majoor
Dare van der Meer
Tutored by Klaske Havik
