Rachely Rotem Studio and Phu Hoang Office together have won a competition organized by SHIFTBoston to design an interactive architectural environment on a barge in Boston’s Fort Point Channel.

The project, entitled Lighter than Air, will temporarily transform the barge into a “pop-up” public space, as well as give the floating vessel a new visual presence in the channel. The installation uses principles of camouflage to create a novel atmospheric phenomenon and to make the familiar appear strange—or the unfamiliar seem familiar.