Parametric Design furniture
August 20, 2023
Michaela Crie Stone lives and works in Rockport, Maine, where she creates pieces that push the parameters of function by blurring the lines between art, craft, and design.
The facade of a cooling tower was covered with 10,000 hinged metal channels that fill with water and tip either left or right. When they tip they spill water into the center of the channel below which then tips either left or right.
The result is a complex and unpredictable dance of water and metal where each element alters the behavior of the elements surrounding it. The artwork, a collaboration between Ned Kahn and architect Moshe Safdie, also aids the functioning of the cooling tower by mixing water with air and cooling the water which gets recycled back into the system.
