Cloudscaping

Abstract: In an ever changing world, nothing is changing more constantly and rapidly as the weather. It’s an integral part of human existence, with enormous implications for our possibility to survive. However, nothing has been as out of reach for humans to alter as the weather, but in the last century this has changed. Unintentionally we have set in motion a large change in our climate that we are now beginning to see the effects of. This thesis aim at examining the possibility of influencing the weather by altering the clouds and the precipitation through architecture. By altering the clouds it will influence the natural space created by the sky. Through researching the processes needed to create clouds, a scalable platform has been designed. These platforms are able to spray water from the sea up into the clouds, but also to connect to each other for a larger structure. The interconnecting platforms create large architecturally interesting forms, but its output is going to have larger effect. Large pillars of water that form clouds will form the space around it for miles. By creating clouds and rain where there are none or too little, it can revert some of the effects of the climate change on a regional scale. This can be done by resupplying areas that has seen decreases amounts of rainfall, but also by resupplying groundwater basins drained by human overconsumption. Even besides the different uses it will also shape the space and sky around it. It will create cloudscapes.