Plume/Idling

摘要

Plume/Idling returns to the issue of architectural reconstruction. It entails a conceptual reconstruction of the exhaust plumes from the idling buses that once existed within a bus shed designed by Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in San Francisco in 1951; the building now houses the California College of the Arts. The experience of energy in architecture is often through the environment that is produced for comfort or for specific forms of labour. However, the experience of energy often involves less pleasant, often odious substances - namely the by-products of energy produced by combustion.