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Department of Architecture

 
Rotating 'ReActor' house designed and built by PhD student Alex Schweder and artist Ward Shelley in upstate New York

ReActor’ is the latest work in an experimental, performative series of ‘social relationship architecture’ designed and built by artists alex schweder and ward shelley. this summer, for a total of five days, the architect-artist duo lived in the rotating house, located in upstate new york. the habitable sculpture measures 44-foot by 8-foot (13.4 x 2.4m) and rotates a complete 360-degrees atop a 15-foot (4.5m) concrete column.

For more information visit:

http://www.designboom.com/architecture/reactor-house-alex-schweder-ward-shelley-omi-international-arts-center-new-york-08-21-2016/

Alex is supervised by Prof Koen Steemers and is part of the department’s “Behaviour and Building Performance” research centre.