The Tree Houses
(A public art installation)
Michael Jantzen
© 2015
http://archinect.com/michael-jantzen/projects
The Tree Houses is a design proposal for a large public art installation made of painted steel, and mounted onto a concrete base. This public sculpture is part of a series called The House as a Metaphor, which plays with the iconic house shape in a variety of abstracted contexts, juxtaposing the house with other recognizable symbols. Most of the pieces are monochrome, and use a single material for both the house and the additions to it, which range from stilts, wheels and railroad tracks to clouds and crosses. Minimal and conceptual, these sculptures are meant to interrogate the meaning of the house symbol by exploring how simple interventions affect its interpretation.
In this case, the sculpture consist of seven house shaped forms of various heights and widths that appear to have grown out of the base into a grove of trees.
Status: Unbuilt
