For the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japanese architects Tetsuo Kondo—in partnership with climate engineers Transsolar—has created a cloud in a transparent room.
The second of its ‘Cloudscapes’ installation series—that’s an experiment in creating new types of architectural space—museum visitors could climb into the cloud container that was located at the Sunken Garden.
When in the container, visitors could climb through the cloud using the stairs in the room—to make them feel as if they’re high above in the ‘sky’.
To create the cloud and keep it at a certain height, the architects controlled the temperature and humidity within the cube, with three types of air layers: cool and dry at the bottom; warm and humid in the middle; and hot and dry at the top.
“The edges of the clouds are sharp yet soft, and always in motion,” the architects wrote. “Their color, density and brightness are constantly changing in tune with the weather and time of day.”
Wouldn’t it be fun if all rooms had clouds in the future?
[via Tetsuo Kondo Architects, images via Ken’ichi Suzuki]