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)
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.
_ Josef Albers, Impossibles, 1931
_ Wim Crouwel, New Alphabet Croquis, 1967
_ Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku University of the arts, Machi-Yatai project, 2009