The Lightning House is a semi-permanent structure located in The Farm at Awbury. Created in the Spring and Summer of 2023 out of a former stone carriage house, the space serves as a collective woodworking, performance and gathering space.
Designed and built by Futurefarmer’s lead architect Lode Vranken, the Lightning House was informed by a community design process convened in April 2022, and was constructed together with Japanese wood joinery woodworker Nobuto Suga who joined from San Francisco. Other volunteers generously contributed to the building of the structure.
The Lightning House is a sapling of S(tree)twork, a multi-year, public art project rooted in Philadelphia whose aim is to animate how we live among trees; how we perceive them; and how we imagine our future co-habitation.
(streetworkproject.net)
Lead Artists, Design, and Fabrication - Futurefarmers, along with many interdisciplinary collaborators.
S(tree)twork is curated by Marina McDougall on behalf of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.