Paul Kozak
The Grass Room
at OCAD
As one of the assignments durring the Sculpture and Installations course at the Ontario College of Art & Design I built a Grass Room. My objective for this project was to utterly change the appearance and the environment of the presentation room 362 at OCAD. I considered it primarily an architectural undertaking.
Inside the room I built an irregular plywood structure that did not resemble
the shape of the space. I covered the new interior with rolls of sod. The
grass covered 100% of the walls, floor and ceiling of the new interior changing
the space and the way it was experienced.
The interior surfaces covered in grass effected people by instantly engaging
all of their senses of touch, scent, sight, sound, and even, due to large
increase of humidity, the taste.
Through my in-depth analysis of the space I chose, I took advantage of parameters
of the room and changed the room from one extreme to another leaving only
the address of the space unchanged.
