Where will our children and grandchildren live? In the future, spouses may no longer argue about buying a home or apartment. They may be saving money to have a house hanging on an asteroid or an "iglo" on Mars.
Sounds too far-fetched?
We can say that. Similarly, when Jules Verne (1828-1905) made a number of novels that to people at that time was very fictional, impossible to be realized. In 1865 he wrote De la Terre à la Lune (From Earth to the Moon) which tells the journey to the moon; or Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea that describes in detail the submarines that are similar to those currently available.
For many people of his day, what Verne made really science fiction might never come true. Moreover a number of Leonardo da Vinci's ideas (1452-1519) about helicopters and horse-drawn carriages. After all it is now very reasonable and become our daily life today.
The same thing happened when Masayuki Sono and Ostap Rudakevych made Clouds Architecture Office in 2010. One might consider it a little overwhelming when offering a building that hangs on an asteroid and to descend to earth, its occupants wearing a parachute. Or an ice-shaped igloo Eskimo house on Mars; a city in a cloud like a helium balloon hovering over there.
A number of their designs may be used in NASA projects, but many may not.
Then what is the importance of futuristic Architecture?
This is certainly not just a shedding of excessive creativity. This is where the function of art in science. As a breaker of all the impossible.
Art, frenzied imagination, and infinite creativity, is a counterweight to the limitations established by today's engineering sciences. The main task of Verne and Da Vinci is to make us think that we should be able to make all of that. They may think of the basics of workable techniques, but it is not the task of the art to be responsible for making them happen.
Here are some crazy ideas from Clouds AO
1. Analemma Tower
The building is hung on an asteroid orbiting the earth. The building did not tread, hanging like a pendulum. In it there are many functions, ranging from cemetery, storage, shelter, and also office.
2. Mars Ice Home
In collaboration with NASA, Clouds AO made a home that could be used for long stay crew researchers on Mars. This house can reject the heat and radiation that exposes the red planet.
3. Comet Runner
Similar to Mars Ice Home, it's just for researchers on comets that are constantly on the move.
4. Aqualta
This is purely their fragrance if global warming keeps sea levels up and big cities drown. Not as extreme as Kevin Costner's Water World, as humans can still pace with boats or traffic on the water.
5. Cloud City
These are balloons that can be torn apart, flown over a flooded city, or just want to enjoy life oscillating in the clouds.
6. Cloud Skippers
Just like Cloud City, it's just Cloud Skipper flying higher, not tied to buildings on earth, and not wearing helium but wind like a gantole.
Sometimes life does have a way of imitating art and literature. Probably humans will have no choice but to reside in outer space, after world leaders are finished polluting and destroying Earth.