Digestible Gulf Stream

摘要

Architecture should no longer build spaces, but rather create temperatures and atmospheres. The Digestible Gulf Stream is the prototype for architecture that works between the neurologic and the atmospheric, developing like a landscape that is simultaneously gastronomic and thermal. Two horizontal metal planes are extended at different heights. The lower plane is heated to 28℃ (82.4℉), the upper one is cooled to 12℃ (53.6℉). Like a miniature Gulf Stream, their position creates a movement of air using the natural phenomenon of convection, in which rising hot air cools on contact with the upper cool sheet and, falling, is then reheated on contact with the hot sheet, thus creating a constant thermal flow akin to an invisible landscape.