Catch Some Shade Under This Illusive Flying House Sculpture

An empty lot is a smashing place to progress a house , but so is the air above it . And this summertime , Flint , Michigan is going to getsome floating material estate of the realm .

describe after a fictive Flint resident who lost his planetary house to foreclosure , “ Mark ’s House ” was design by London architectural and excogitation squad “ Two Islands ” who ’ve been granted a prize of $ 25,000 to build the impermanent , summertime marquee . The inagural exhibit ofFlint ’s “ prostrate Lot”competition , the mansion itself will be address in a highly - reflective stuff , but its standout feature is the mirrored pedestal it ’s perched on , which — at a glance — gives it the eery show of hovering over the lot below .

When it ’s finished in June , the house will not only provide some subtlety for the public stage beneath it , but will also lay in up to 1,500 gallons of water , which can be misted down on pedestrians below . Come fall , however , the planetary house will float away ( i.e. be de - fabricate ) to come back the fortune to its previous phlegm to make room for the follow summer ’s exhibit . But unless the newcomer is , like , a float flat building that rains money , Mark ’s House is break down to be a tough routine to follow . [ Flint Public Art ProjectviaDesignboom ]

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