A mockup built in response to Santiago Calatrava’s proposed 80 South Street project.
The structure is based as closely as possible on Calatrava’s original mockup, with the addition of a large window for each cube. Each cube is as big as a four-story house and is meant to serve as a single-family residence. At the price tag of $30 million, these dwellings are obviously reserved for very rich individuals. This seems a bit unfair and ridiculous, given the amount of space this building takes up and the number of people in New York City having trouble securing a place to stay.
Everyone should have an equal opportunity to live in this building, and this is what our sculpture represents. 3 of our 6 windows are LCD screens showing videos of people from different financial situations co-habitating at 80 South Street. A person previously living on the street is on the 5th floor, a student is having friends over on the 4th floor, and a wealthy woman is enjoying a cucumber face mask on the 1st floor.
 
The structure was built using foam-core for the cubes, and acrylic rods for the frame. The live windows were made using LCD screens from portable DVD players, the static windows using frosted acrylic and plastic figurines to generate shadows. Wires run all the way down the structure to the base, which holds DVD players to feed the content to the screens, and a simple circuit to make the live windows flicker, much like an old film projector.
 
 
 
Nice work. Very impressive!