Year: 2017.
Type: Room.
Project Team: Albert Orozco, Ziang Ao, and Edwin O'Brien.
Floating can be described as an object that hovers above water, yet it is also a state of being that pushes the threshold between ground and water. Houses on stilts, boat homes, over-water bungalows - we are inspired by colloquial approaches to the “floating room”. This project - “Stateless” - pushes the notion of floating as a series of objects on the lake. Here, floating is understood as a suspension between simultaneous states: interior and exterior, ground and water, building and boat, etc. Rather than floating a room as a boat, our project straddles the idea of flotation as a building that appears to hover above the surface of the lake, yet is firmly grounded in the lake’s bed.