Head in the Clouds

Exhibited in the Chicago Architecture Biennial: Architecture in Times of Radical Shift

This project explores how we live as individuals and as collectives: all more or less the same and all more or less different.

The installation is a world within a column. As an vertical object, the column is four posts that support a metal box, from which whiskers emerge to the ceiling. It is made entirely of prefabricated aluminum extrusions. Looking into the box reveals a postwar dream: a single family residence in a yard, endlessly repeating.

The reflected worlds of Yayoi Kusama and the figural characters of John Hejduk are brought together to explore ideas of the collective, citizenry, industrialization, and environment.

Sponsor: 80 / 20 Building Solutions

Fabricator: FPE Automation

Team: Nicholas Houser, Hunter Blackwell, Peng Qi, Lydia Yang Liu, Theo Woessner, Ross Brunetti

With support from SCB, and Chris Pemberton, CEO