Serweta
Peck

In the pursuit of an endless summer, a house with man-made weather brought to you by heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) can go well beyond the well-tempered environment to provide an architecture without the matter of modernity, such as a physical roof, walls and a floor. Instead: the pursuit is one of the primordial – the perfectly mutable and invisible features of air, electricity, and water to mold a state of permanent solstice. All that’s solid melts into aircon, a plethora of ductwork and pipes become the visible conduit of controlled lightning and synthetic wind, defining spaces through mechanical breaths and bubbles of warmth and cool. Strip away the drywall and you get the honesty of contemporary living: metal lungs and PVC nerves permanently pulsating to provide a pillow of comfort. Ready-made / object-oriented building techniques and an army of acronyms and symbols developed by mechanical engineers (PHX, RFM, FTR, DTW, EAT, CDP, BTU…) define the domestic limits of living dangerously comfortable (or comfortably dangerous). The beach is your bedroom. The jungle is the parlor. Everywhere is the orangery. You are poolside forever.