Clouds
Queens, New York
Site: Queens, NY / Socrates Sculpture Park
Program: Folly
Size: 100 sf
Status: Competition Proposal
Team: Shawn M. Lutz with op.AL (Jonathan A. Scelsa & Jennifer Birkeland)
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Clouds operate parallel to the horizon depicting shapes of the imagination as figures floating above a topological landform. Silhouettes of profiles subservient to the structure and mesh-figured windows provide cross-through winds tethered by four poles composed of anodized aluminum to levitate this folly without sacrificing form.
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![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/672e29966f4d78f603b1f04f48c201f166293235442f54d71e0c002eaf6cd286/Josef-Albers--Impossibles--1931.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e89f4ac9448e0929a2fd49c96f7ad4886db075edd8c98118dc65431385dd856/Wim-Crouwel--New-Alphabet-Croquis--1967.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8fcc57064656c65e05bbd767a8cb36dd62a3d68bb3ac9c1885273ea9100524d4/Tokyo-Geijutsu-Daigaku-University-of-the-arts--Machi-Yatai-project--2009.jpg)
_ Josef Albers, Impossibles, 1931
_ Wim Crouwel, New Alphabet Croquis, 1967
_ Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku University of the arts, Machi-Yatai project, 2009