SEATTLE, Wash. – September 20, 2021 – The Seattle Architecture Foundation’s model exhibit Breathe – running from August 4, 2021 to December 11, 2021 – is a great description of the design process… breathing life into an idea, inspiration and bringing to reality something out of an act of creativity.
CRTKL’s entry documents the design process for the firm’s 2021 Seattle Design Festival submission: Emerge. “Through a series of study models, mock-ups, printed models and diagrammatic 2D graphics; we will walk through the ideas and process,” says David Chamness, associate principal.
As a bonus, visitors were able to view CRTKL’s realized Breathe model, Kaleidospace, a full-scale art installation feature in the Seattle Design Festival (SDF) in August. CRTKL collaborated on Kaleidospace with Bayley Construction.
Since 1998, the Seattle Architecture Foundation Model Exhibit has been free and open to the public, allowing everyone a chance to peer inside the design process and see how their city gets made. Initially produced as a way to spotlight new Seattle buildings with traditional 3D models and drawings, the exhibit has morphed to include abstract-sculptural, digital, and even VR pieces. Small but mighty, the exhibit has explored big themes like adaptation, accessibility, sustainability and density but always with a Pacific Northwest lens.