Daycaster

Client: Exeter City Council

Architect/Landscape Architect: Sutherland Hussey

Stirling prize short listed architects Sutherland and Hussey designed Daycaster to celebrate the arrival of the Met Office to Exeter and form a new gateway for the city. Daycaster forms an ever-changing arc of light that subtly changes according to changing climate conditions. 24 LED’s are connected to a solid-state computer that records the difference in temperature, humidity and pressure for over the past twenty-four hours and reflect the difference from average conditions through coloured light. The Daycaster is magenta when warmer and blue when colder then average conditions.