Brilirious Decolage
A Cloud Citysupervised by Warren Techentin
Location: Bhartiya City
Date: 2016
Cloud City is an urban proposal for Bangalore, India that attempts to develop a conversation between modernity and cultural conformity. In its most basic arrangement, it is a layered project whereby each plane signifies a parallel world composed of programmatic and iconographic objects. The urban ground level is inspired by informal settlements organized around a main pedestrian walkway. The organization of the informal settlements refers to ideas of porous boundaries associated with Kevin Lynch. The main mass of the building contains office space intermingled with iconographic amenities. In an era dominated by electronic technologies that elongate the work day, the office within Cloud Cities attempts to hold amenities accountable through its iconographic properties. The roof condition treats these iconographic amenities as standalone pavilions that can be easily perused. In its most simplistic form, Cloud City harbors multiple fragments of utopias in the air while connecting it to its urban environment through thin strands of circulation.
