The Future House of the Rising Sun
The Future House of the Rising Sun is a proposal for a large painted steel public art sculpture installation designed to explore the relationship between sculpture, architecture, and the house of the future. The sculpture is purposely uninhabitable and yet it incorporates various symbolic elements that might be used in a habitable house, especially in a house designed for the future.
Some of these elements like two sets of stairs are intentionally out of scale and do not lead to any kind of entrance to the inside of the house. In fact there are no doors or windows. There are various parts of the structure that appear to have a relevant function, like a large funnel shaped extension that looks as though it could be used to collect rainwater for use in and around the house. There also appears to be a solar collector mounted above the house as well as what appears to be a wind turbine. None of these elements appear to do anything other then symbolically refer to potential functional uses. There is a large yellow colored dome in the center of the house along with other oddly shaped appendages that appear to have a specific reason for being there.
The Future House of the Rising Sun attempts to question the relationship between sculpture and architecture through a presentation of symbolic functional and non-functional components that form the structure. When is a sculpture a sculpture, and when is architecture architecture, and how much does this question have to do with function.
Status: Unbuilt
