Tomás Saraceno
Cloud Cities / Air-Port-City 4 Modules Metal, 2010-2011
Aluminum, mirror glass, steel, dibond, iron, steel rope
H 139 3/8 x 267 3/4 x 154 3/4 in
Photo: JC Lett
Cloud Cities is an architectural utopia created by Tomás Saraceno to find a solution for over-population and environmental des- truction. Inspired by Frankfurt’s eponymous Airport City, this work is a...
Cloud Cities is an architectural utopia created by Tomás Saraceno to find a solution for over-population and environmental des- truction. Inspired by Frankfurt’s eponymous Airport City, this work is a constellation of imposing, interconnected modules. It invites the viewer to enter and move around in this geometri- cally complex space – a union of architecture, art, and science. This prototype of a floating city imagined as a cluster of cells alludes to Buckminster Fuller’s utopist architecture, and in particular to his levitating sphere project, Cloud Nine.