Extension Gallery is an experimental forum for testing new thought and practice in architecture. It is a platform for dialog between national and international practices and investigation of the relations between architecture and other disciplines. The gallery commissions architects that adopt a diverse set of architectural theories to design and construct site-specific installations that transform the gallery space with their work and allow visitors to explore and experience current architectural thought in practice.
Easton + Combs: Changing Room
CHANGING ROOM is a mirage of the intimate in the realm of the public.
Situated in the context of the gallery, this installation proposes its oscillating redefinitions of the intimate and the public as an experimental architectural expression. The psychological conditions associated with transparency, reflectivity, illumination and lightness intersect with their material expression in a lightweight semitransparent dichroic polycarbonate surface. This surface is the temporary veil that creates the ambient conditions of CHANGING ROOM. At the same time the surface is organized by the textile and tectonic logic of a herringbone weave to perform as a structural skin shell and create faceted surface conditions that allow for maximum visual dichroic and transparent effects.
Friday, April 8th 2011, 6pm – Lecture and Exhibition Opening
April 8 – June 3, 2011
Changing Room is sponsored by Extension Gallery, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, NY State Council on the Arts and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY.
Please visit the following link to review and support this installation:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/925393979/changing-room-an-experimental-environment
