LIQUID HOUSE EXHIBIT
DISCOVERY WORLD AT PIER WISCONSIN, WI
Liquid House is one installation among multiple permanent exhibits designed by LA DALLMAN for Discovery World, including the Great Lakes Future, the Sea of Sustainability, and the City of Fresh Water.
Sea of Sustainability / City of Fresh Water explores the impact humans have on the natural water environment and its reciprocal influence in shaping the urban form. The exhibit floor comprises a circular space divided by the existing “Challenge” interactive schooner exhibit. This exhibit serves as the divider/fulcrum for the distinct yet unified nature of the Sea of Sustainability/City of Fresh Water exhibit spaces. From the vantage point of the Challenge deck, the unique perspectives on a unified theme presented by the intervention is apparent. On the south (SOS) side, the intervention takes the form of a fluid “vessel” and the exhibit explores the natural phenomena of water in all of its various manifestations. On the North (COFW) side, the exhibits show the ways humans harness the natural water environment and the impact we have both positive and negative. The built form of the north side is designed to evoke the urban experience and the interaction of water within it while avoiding the limitations of a strictly literal representation of building forms. The form of the South side “vessel” reads throughout both sides, submerged into the floor on the North side and reemerging as a reminder of the pervasiveness of this essential compound.