INTERMEDIARY SOFTNESS
2025

Type: Architecture

Role: Research Assistant
Duration: Year
Team: 

Led by Debbie Chen, Team with Team Members Samuel Choi and Yang Tian

School: Rhode Island School of Design, with the Somerson Sustainability Innovation Fund 


Intermediary Softness is an on-going project that considers infrastructural systems as critical cultural technologies in addressing climate change. The design argues for an alternative type of infrastructural apparatus. This research was focused on the intersection of bathing culture and passive solar systems.