Metropolis Magazine “Workplace of the Future” Competition Entry – 2012
In collaboration with Krista G. and Marissa E.
Cloud is a speculative vision for a modular, airborne workplace that inhabits the voids between high-rise buildings. Conceived as a light-hearted yet critical provocation, the project imagines a future where construction is trivial, technology is ubiquitous, and the true luxury is spatial flexibility.
Each Cloud unit functions as a self-contained workspace, designed to aggregate, stack, and connect through a system of “portals” and structural loops—forming new aerial infrastructures that weave between and across existing towers. Part building, part urban parasite, Cloud bridges separate practices and work cultures, promoting unexpected collisions and new collaborative constellations suspended mid-air.
Formally, the project embraces curvature and softness, a deliberate contrast to the rigidity of the surrounding architecture. Circulation is embedded with program—every passage doubles as a workspace or lounge. Vegetation infiltrates the facade, and even the roof plane becomes active, transforming unused surfaces into zones for rest, reflection, or fresh air.
Unrealistic by design, Cloud is intentionally whimsical. It is a speculative leap into a world where buildings grow like networks and office space floats, tethered only by our willingness to reimagine what work could look like—above, between, and beyond the grid.
