Ready-made and bursting with color, inflatable objects inhale air and glowing color to create the luminous room of the Luis Ponsd-lab creative laboratory
Originally conceived as a changeable space to host both office and living areas, it is shaped by a series of mobile containers that function as room dividers and storage spaces. It has been undertaken by assembling the parts of pre-existing products easily found in the marketplace (supermarkets, hardware stores and pharmacies), in order to design an installation which best reflects our philosophy.
The project was accomplished with a very small budget, and with the additional objective of overcoming the challenges moving as well as shipping and handling materials.
Inflatable Villa
Miami, Florida
Floating Inflatable Villa is Pons’ reaction to Miami’s real estate boom and to the inflated architecture embedded in a property value system equally inflated by hoards of realtors.
While Miami architecture has always been about fantasy, Pons is unhappy about the new crop of pseudo-Palladian Mc Mansions, which are characterized by their predictable use of columns, capitals, pilasters, arches, keystones, fountains, and statues.
Uninspired Miami architecture, Pons says, “fails to engage, and instead confronts an aggressively unattractive symbol of our architecturally inflated and environmentally impoverished age.” Surprisingly enough, Andrea Palladio, whose work was the model for the 21st Century Miami mansion, was a brilliant practitioner of environmentally
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Inflatable Villa
Floating Inflatable Villa is Pons’ reaction to Miami’s real estate boom and to the inflated architecture embedded in a property value system equally inflated by hoards of realtors.
While Miami architecture has always been about fantasy, Pons is unhappy about the new crop of pseudo-Palladian Mc Mansions, which are characterized by their predictable use of columns, capitals, pilasters, arches, keystones, fountains, and statues.
Uninspired Miami architecture, Pons says, “fails to engage, and instead confronts an aggressively unattractive symbol of our architecturally inflated and environmentally impoverished age.” Surprisingly enough, Andrea Palladio, whose work was the model for the 21st Century Miami mansion, was a brilliant practitioner of environmentally integrated residential design—something that these “Mc Mansions” fail to achieve.
Miami Clouds
Miami, Florida
“Miami clouds” is a series of inflatable furniture that manages to capture the identity of Miami with its fun and playful nature as well as its flexibility to be used for both indoor and outdoor environments. Miami clouds are filled with air representing energy that is difficult to seize, but full of potential to interact and entertain when contained.
