The rigid grid of concrete urban environments can often feel static and mundane. Streets don’t flow like rivers, but follow the changing of electric lights instead. Rigid buildings stand mutually exclusive from the people in the city, but a living architecture is possible. The building’s natural white surface moves in and out. It converses with each passer-by. It’s a building amongst the living. The structure’s form is unpredictable and ever changing. It reacts to each person who enters. The building acts as a fluid part of the environment. A mix of fluid, cloud-like motion, and calculated, mechanized steel- an exercise in the ethereal by virtue of technological prowess. Its surreal effect is mesmerizing. It is unearthly and sensual, inorganic and breathing, produced and ephemeral. This exquisite form will seduce even the most blasé passer by with its inexplicable grandeur.

This project will transform the building into a living machine. Beneath the structure’s membrane is an intricate system of scaffolding, gears, LED lights, and motors covered with a veneer of soft, organic, white fabric. Unlike a typical building, it is a sentient being that reacts to it’s surrounding. When patrons enter the building they will set off a sensor that triggers the LED lights and mechanical arms to change the building’s form. The structure will change continually for the entirety of the instillation, and contrast the mundane and static uniformity of its surroundings. This unconventional and elegant structure in motion will enthrall the patrons of the building and citizens of the city alike.