" On Match 5th National Geographic Channel with team of scientists, engineers, and two world-class balloon pilots realized this idea and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight. 16′ X 16′ house started from the private airfield near Los Angeles and hovering in the air about an hour, reaching a height of 10,000 feet."
Effective lighting gives the cavernous interior a rather chapel-like mood, with creatively stacked crates forming elaborate columns. Various monitors and projection screens display film recounting the sights, sounds, and feeling of the original event. And even when guests are done checking out the exhibitions, all they need to do to pique their fascination is to look up – the light filtering through the thousands of beer crates is like an art show in itself!
"As supplies come in from throughout the world, the shipping pallets for those supplies can be erected to make walls, ceilings, and floors. By covering these structures in locally-sourced finishing materials it is possible to create a quality shelter that will stand long enough for families to build permanent housing."
"As the interchangeable exterior walls of the dollhouse slide open and overlap one another, their colors change in hue and value."
"Chosen because of their nature as seat of knowledge, as symbols of intrinsically human free thought, books are here “used” as raw materials for an artistic process existing and communicating on many distinct levels."
"The Sirch Villa Sibi Dollhouse transforms traditional dollhouse playtime into the magical world of cool pretending with a modernist, wooden dollhouse design that echoes today's emerging ideas for dwellings."
