CATERPILLAR
with Johannes Schönherr

Unitversity project in winter semester 2022/23
Supervised by Prof. Klaus Michel and Asst. Kristin Lieb

Our design is intended to actually extend the interior to the outside, but also to metaphysically add an experience of an intermediate space between inside and outside. The translucent curtain conceals the construction from the room and stages the staircase as a stairway to the outside. The staircase leads past the window and into an indeterminable, decoupled space. The inflated air chambers are only so transparent that they allow the softly refracted daylight to illuminate the room, but the person inside cannot locate themselves. The constructive and static structure is created using conventional scaffolding. The space created can be accessed via a staircase and a floor made of OSB boards. The thermal boundary is created with an air-supported outer skin made of translucent PE film. A spherical space between inside and outside, which tests the physical parameters and physical starting conditions of architecture.

Photos by TOMASZ LEWANDOWSKI