Inspired by sauna culture, Atmosphere: A Future Design Experiment is a public art installation and placemaking experiment designed and built by Fresh prince in collaboration with creative director Studio RJM and design research lab Collective Futures.
The work, exhibited as part of Melbourne Design Week 2019, investigates how design can tackle the rethinking of spaces in response to changing social and urban conditions.
The Fairfield Amphitheatre was flooded and transformed into a 24-hour design experiment inspired by the culture, rituals and spatial dynamics of saunas, investigating how design can impact social connection.
Atmosphere blurred the boundaries between personal and public space, to create an intimate, immersive environment where the audience could both find solitude and coexist.
The tiny translucent pavilion was prefabricated using timber and frost-paper laminated on mini-orb polycarbonate.
Client National Gallery of Victoria
Site Fairfield Amphitheatre
Collaborators Collective Futures + Studio RJM
Photography Rachel Mackay
