Light = Heat

In the Light=Heat pavilion, one can experience a journey through colour and heat, exploring in a tangible way how something as simple as differing thicknesses of material directly affects the ambient around you. The use of colour in the layers of the pavilion relate to the colours in a 5 colour heat map, thus providing a visual medium to see the change of temperature in the air inside each ring through colour. The pavilion would take not only the optical quality of light through the use of colour, but also the fact that light is energy, and through the use of material it can be trapped and converted into heat. Therefore Light+Material=Heat. Such a simple formula, but something is better experienced rather than told. Taking its cue from plastic greenhouses, the pavilion would use sheets of transparent, colourful PVC fabric to envelope each ring, with the thickness of the fabric increasing which each consecutive ring, thus increasing the heat trapping potential for the rings as you go further inside. This rate of temperature increase in each ring would mirror the predicted increase in temperature in each coming decade due to global warming using the worst-case-scenario model. Thus, people would not only experience the effect material has on ambient heat, but they would do so in a way that provides a tangible representation of how global warming can affect temperature in our surrounding context, raising awareness for how drastically things can change in our own lifetimes. The flexible nature of the pavilion means that it could be used in virtually any location, as the temperature inside the pavilion’s rings is simply an incremental increase in temperature from the exterior ambient temperature. This translates to the possibility of using this pavilion in several places around the world to raise awareness of how global warming can affect our respective hometowns.