ArtHouse Gary

Located on the 5th Avenue Corridor in Gary, Indiana, ArtHouse: A Social Kitchen serves as an incubator for culinary arts, performances, and communal gatherings.  ArtHouse was facilitated by Theaster Gates, a professor at the University of Chicago, world renown for the use of public art displays intended to beautify urban communities. The design is a 3,000 sf experiment in variable structure, a celebration and reinterpretation of local manufacturing capabilities, and relies completely on solar power.  It showcases the industrial-rich context of Gary by utilizing local CNC-wire bending typically applied to kitchen equipment and pushes the structural limit of thin bent wire applied in a variable pattern.  Each of the 2,000 custom design and hand assembled lanterns are lined with a dichroic film and capped with a solar LED light. Latent was  responsible for fabrication and installation of this dynamic installation that changes in appearance based on the atmospheric conditions of the day.