Sutro Baths, San Francisco, California
Studio Project - Spring 2020
This project is a nightscape monument to fires, natural and anthropogenic, especially the recent wildfires in California and Australia, as well as the fires throughout San Francisco as a means to displace rent control tenants. Therefore, this is also a monument to social fires, however they may manifest themselves - and it is especially a monument to those who continue to struggle against inequality.
A Convenient Truth
Site Plan
Using information from the sound sensors, colors pulsate from blue to orange, synchronized with the direction and strength of the swell to represent burning (incoming waves) and quenching (receding waves), accordingly.
The posts are essentially a mirroring of the swell.
Wave Sound - Light Synchronization
Corten posts to have engraved infographics with Ohlone history on this land, Sutro’s Bath History, and the many different uses the space had, as it was the popular place for middle and lower class city-dwellers to hang out given its accessibility (cheap direct public transportation) and fun community events.
Site Analysis
FIRES IN CALIFORNIA
MODEL STUDY