In-Spire: The Museum Of Weather

Jean-Pierre Issa (Year: 2)

In the current environmental emergency we need new spaces that engage us with the fast-changing science of climate change. As climate fear, and indeed climate terror, is on the rise, we must create new community venues to plan and debate our collective future. My project aims In-Spire: the Museum of Weather, is a network of six museums, that aims to exhibit and measure specific weather characteristics above churches. These all link to a seventh church where a Debate hall discusses climate and weather. The architectural language is retained as the building differ in order to follow the architectural grid their hosts offer. While manifesting representations of weather, the buildings collect data in order to accurately discuss them in St Stephen’s Auditorium, to inform, debate and “inspire” people. While they individually perform their weathers, their Cooper facades collectively evolved as they weather and turn from pink to green, truly linking my architecture and the weather. Finlay While tackling the weather, my museums also transform the churches’s rooftops and exhibits them as art forms.