PARADISE LOST

“The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way” Milton, John: “Paradise Lost”, Book X, 1667.

“And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents” [Numbers 9,17]

The “Universal Grid” suggested by Superstudio in the early seventies, it wasn’t able to give us back to the Paradise Lost praised by John Milton, where an idyllic naked Adam and Eve took a walk below treetops. An energetic and informative orthogonal grid in competition with the multidirectional cloud protecting the jewish people pilgrimage through the desert and turning their tents into useless devices, a new “life without objects”.

A new triangular grid depicts this ability of adaptation to the urban context, multiplying the possible directions in the urban space. The shelter of tents is suppressed by a new modular plastic forest/cloud blown up with ventilators as top of a new capital in a future low-tech classical order . A plastic and metal cloud/forest building a new pneumatic structure as Mobile Art Exhibition common roof in a new chance for searching this mythological condition suggested by Paradise Lost.

A new triangular grid depicts this new ability of adaptation of the urban context, multiplying

Lost opportunity again???

1st PRIZE Transitarte Competition 1ER CONCURSO ONLINE DE ARQUITECTURA. TRANSITARTE.