Sunday, March 8, 2009

Levitation and the Literal

I was reading Wired News when I came across a hovercraft designed by Kazim Doku. Sure it’s a concept, and a very cool artifact (if it were to be produced), but the importance of such investigations are quite relevant to architectural discourse.

As we contemplate the emergence of a Wölfflin neo-Baroque period (even Jimenez Lai agreed with me in saying that we’re all acting like mannerist…) in which the painterly effect and levitation dominate our sensibilities, the act of literal levitation is quite compelling.

Imagine how would you design a building (or, well, anything) if gravity were not a real dominating force-

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Kinda brings out the Star Wars in all of us…

…and I don’t think the leather costume is included….Just a thought.

Images/Video are completely ripped off the Wired site, who ripped them off of Doku. Needless to say, none of the graphics are mine. Hope that clarifies all of it-