CLOUD DUBAI
Autumn 2014
From the beginning of man's gross infatuation of taking over the ground, it seems the sky has become the fetish of interest for displays of power, greed, and superficiality. Superimposition of grids, forms, and geometries have created multiple conditions along the major strip of Sheikh Sayed Road where the fight for height has become the desired game of developers, architects, and urban planners. This need to overcome the sky seems to fully be achieved when these gleaming towers surpass the clouds and seem to posture their crowns within the house of Gods. All hail Burj Khalifa.
In the scenario of Cloud Dubai, the ground has responded to this challenge through it's efforts to exaggerate the given conditions created by man. This suppression of the ground has bubbled to a moment of revolution and conjecture; the ground has become figure. The Sheikh Strip is now a new Eden that links the sound ordinance of the northern grid with the southern heterogeneic playground of rotated, skewed, and colliding grids. Depicted as the extreme extrusion of the urban situation, the grids become the structural slivers that the ground plane pushes through like dense play-doh rising to the sky. Within this new cloud city, the towers are castrated of their power of intimidation, and the people have reconnected with the clouds above. The Burj has been dethroned, the destabilization of the ground has crippled the tower through its own greatest achievement. It desperately must be reinforced to the rising ground and is shamefully dependent on the element which it initially shadowed. A new balance has been achieved within the sky: Welcome to Cloud Dubai.
