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Climate Crisis Church
Project 01 — Fall 2019
Community Space
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Climate - Responsive Spaces
Award: Nomination
Institutions Studio, Taubman Student Show, 2021
Climate Crisis Church
Project 01 — Fall 2019
Community Space
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Climate - Responsive Spaces
Award: Nomination
Institutions Studio, Taubman Student Show, 2021
A Secular Church for the Climate Crisis
How might architecture help us live within instability, to “stay with the trouble,” as Donna Haraway writes? Architecture not as or from an organized network, but rather configured, and come to pause within the entanglements, the troubles, the mortality.
On Felch Park in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this project proposes four programs in various states of containment from the outdoors: a lobby, a corridor, a practice studio, a theater. Changing with each season, the design uses scents, weather, and sunlight as found material. These four loosely contained spaces create a secular church to bring people together to mourn and cope with the effects of climate change.
How might architecture help us live within instability, to “stay with the trouble,” as Donna Haraway writes? Architecture not as or from an organized network, but rather configured, and come to pause within the entanglements, the troubles, the mortality.
On Felch Park in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this project proposes four programs in various states of containment from the outdoors: a lobby, a corridor, a practice studio, a theater. Changing with each season, the design uses scents, weather, and sunlight as found material. These four loosely contained spaces create a secular church to bring people together to mourn and cope with the effects of climate change.
Site Diagram
Plan
Elevation and Lobby in Autumn
Practice Space in Summer
Path and Entrance to Theater in Spring
Theater in Winter
Scent Models
Site Model
Lobby Model