Bureau Spectacular

Phalanstery Module


Installation, 2008

Team: Jimenez Lai, Nick Blake, Jenna Didier, Oliver Hess, Peri Shefik, Stephany Stamatis, Arianna Lapenne, Blair Ellis, Linda Wei, Mishal Hashimi, Lily Sparks, Brian Janezcko, Paul Adam, Deus Xavier Scott, Nan Wolman, Eddy Sykes, Joanne Bloomfield, Dan Gottlieb, Kaveh Arbab, Libby McInerny, Linda Graveline, Samantha Gottlieb, Emmanuel Gonzalez, Elizabeth Anderson, Kellene Kaas, Josh Avina, S. Bennett, Daniel Stehr, Tulay Atak, Janine Sanchez, Lance Wilson, Alberto Miyares, Coco Conn


Special Thanks: Lukasz Kos


Photography: Scott Mayoral


The Phalanstery Module is an outdoor installation, it is a room that rotates at once an hour at the speed of a conventional clock.

In zero-gravity, one can rotate in architecture and treat all surfaces as plans - i.e., walls, ceilings, and floors all become floors. Without gravity, all surfaces can be occupied. The distinctions between orthographic drawings become obsolete. This installation is a structure rotating once an hour, like a clock. Every 15 minutes, one of the surfaces becomes parallel to the ground. In the middle of every 7.5-minute conversation, two people are bound to collide and experience life on the oblique. Architectural programs and activities become overpowered by the instinctive interpretations of our bodies against measurable dimensions. This installation comes from a comic story about a group of citizens riding a Noah's Ark Spaceship to a new planet far away.