A continuous surface hovers overhead, gathering separate zones into a single atmospheric field. As visitors move through the exhibition, space is experienced through flow and proximity rather than enclosure, allowing relationships between works to emerge gradually.

Common Weathers was developed as the exhibition design for ReGeneration at the New York Hall of Science, an exhibition presenting ten installations that explore immigration, urbanization, and sustainability through art, science, and technology. Conceived as more than a neutral framework, the environment operates as the exhibition’s eleventh contribution—an installation that shapes how the work is encountered.

The project frames New York City as an exothermic system, energized by constant infusions of people, ideas, and cultures. Rather than emphasizing accumulation, the design focuses on mixing—points of overlap, turbulence, and exchange where new conditions arise. This logic parallels weather systems, where distinct currents remain legible even as they form a larger whole.

Conventional exhibition strategies are inverted. Instead of white walls and linear partitions, a floating canopy defines the space, connecting installations above while loosely organizing zones below. The geometry behaves as a minimal surface, visually and spatially linking each work without imposing hierarchy.

Each installation occupies a circular zone defined by a specific radius tuned to its content. These non-directional spaces suggest influence radiating outward rather than forward, allowing visitors to encounter the works as both independent and interdependent.

Above, individual funnels merge into a continuous surface, making visible the idea that meaning emerges through connection. Common Weathers operates as an environmental diagram—spatializing the exhibition’s themes through form, movement, and flow rather than explanation.

By treating exhibition design as a living system, Common Weathers transforms viewing into navigation. The gallery becomes a field of interaction, where diversity, overlap, and turbulence are not obstacles to clarity, but the conditions through which a collective whole takes shape.