Looking to Venus (October 2020)
Looking to Venus houses a human and her animal companions, who in a Toyota Land Cruiser, will ascend to Venus. This house was designed with the constraints of using 2 and 3 point arcs to form the scaffolding of the house. These shapes were chosen as a nod to the constellations and the nearby and highly promising heavenly body of Venus.
The house has three main parts called The Atrium, The Tiny House, and The Lab. The roof of The Lab is equipped with solar panels and a falling waterfall courtyard. The semitransparent orange wall, which faces north has less direct sunlight, but is evenly lit throughout the day. This area is where especially the mornings must be spent to take full advantage of the light for creative thought generation, whether in the lab, the atrium, or the tiny home. The interior is largely open space with tree and shrubbery, and itself houses the living quarters that can be described as a tiny home.
This house functions as a safe haven, a lab, and a launchpad for building similar homes in interstellar worlds. The landing strip serves a dual purpose for safe takeoff and as warm welcome home from The Looking to Venus house.
I created this piece for Stanford lecturer Mark Applebaum’s course Creative Agency in the Pandemic World.
Dog Park Soundwalk Diagram
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