The Weather Holds is a social provocation derived from the intersection of weather forms and vernacular architecture in the American South. Using mist and atmospheric “public interiorities,” it creates an outdoor, interior-like spatial temporal assemblage. The project theorizes that body and vapor mutually reveal interiority through hyperlocal climatic design. It tests emergent technologies in design-simulation-fabrication workflows to explore mist density, direction, patterning, and climates. 

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The project constructs atmospheric interiors within public urban exterior places. Beginning with the vernacular architecture of the American South, this research critiques our current environmental technologies—homogenized and sealed breathing spaces. This project’s research into weather-generated interiors is a rich and complex study of regionally-inspired atmospheric material systems, informed by prototypes, simulations, computational fluid dynamics, and installations that engage local, vernacular poetics within the public realm. With these, the project aims to mitigate the impacts of extreme urban heat and global warming while amplifying our perception of interiority in the outdoors.