Rehearsing Climate Futures Through Embodied Experience
The project reimagines the museum as a civic infrastructure for rehearsing climate futures. Set on Pomona Island, where flood, industrial memory, infrastructure, ruin, and spontaneous ecology already coexist, the proposal works within a landscape that is already changing through environmental stress. Architecture is conceived as a spatial sequence of embodied climate conditions: an experiential journey from evidence to atmosphere, comfort to instability, heat to wetness, pressure to decay, and human time to environmental time. A clearer linear journey guides the visitor through these shifts, making climate change legible through movement, bodily discomfort, atmosphere, material transformation, and threshold.
The spatial script organises the museum as a linear sequence of thresholds, where movement, atmosphere, and environmental change guide the visitor experience. This sequence gives the museum its overall form and logic, allowing the building to communicate climate change through bodily experience, material transformation. In Studio 3, the spatial script was further developed from the earlier proposal into a clearer architectural sequence. While the core idea of a climate journey remained, the spaces were refined to improve legibility, threshold conditions, and the relationship between narrative and building form.
Through this curated sequential experience, the visitor is repositioned within future climate conditions as an active participant rather than a distant observer. The museum becomes a civic framework for rehearsing environmental change, where climate crisis is experienced as a reflective encounter.
