Last week we had the first public event at the Rheomode Athens studio-workshop space at Skyrou 19. With an art installation permit from the Municipality of Athens we occupied a car-parking space on the street outside of the Rheomode space, and – with the enthusiastic support of our neighbors – erected a small 6m high iteration of our pre-prototype evaporative cooling structure. This was our first public testing in Kypseli, following a series of prototypes that we erected and tested in the Latraac Bar and Urban Garden in July 2024, and an exhibition of our work at the Venice Architecture Bienalle 2025.
The installation was a great success, collecting important new data and with lots of enthusiastic engagement from our neighbors, passers-by and children who especially enjoyed the misty-rain calibration. That day the ambient temperature was mid thirties Celsius and we consistently achieved around 5-7 degrees cooling – sometimes more – right up until midnight when we finally demounted the installation with the help of locals.
Inside we screened the two films that we made (with Gemma Riggs and Linn Phyllis Seeger) for the Venice Biennale 2025.
