PNEUMATIC ARCHIVES

Pneumatic Agglomeration entering San Francisco

Interior conditions of Pneumatics

The Factory producing pneumatics

Axonometric detail of The Factory

Pneumatic Agglomeration occupying the city grid

Exploded Axonometric of Pneumatic construction

Pneumatic Section

Pneumatic Agglomeration in San Francisco

Runner-Up; Substance Design Forum, 2019
Honorable Mention; Eliminate Loneliness Design Competition, 2019
Runner-Up; H. Kennard Bussard Award, 2018
Finalist; CSI Competition Award, 2018

16 weeks | with Jake Spangler, Kane Hassebrock, Megan Zeien | under Mitchell Squire

The Pneumatic Archives of Subjectivities and Imaginaries is an agglomeration of pneumatic structures that spatially invades the entire city of San Francisco. The architecture parallels perceptual conditions of fog—confusion, spatial disorientation, and blurred boundaries. It instrumentalizes these conditions to spatially confront everyone, impeding all functions in the city, and enabling imagination in our current oppressive era.

The architecture begins to invade the city concurrently with the fog. Pneumatics are produced by the Factory—a structure located in the Pacific—from plastic ocean garbage, transforming the waste into double-walled membranes which are then embedded with technological and environmental control systems before being super-pressurized and launched into the atmosphere.

As they completely occupy the void of the city grid, the pneumatics strategically rearrange their interior pathways to respond to needs present within, utilizing technology to administer its spatial intentions and revolutionary phenomena.