Cloud Cities

Cloud Cities is an ongoing series of imagined architectural landscapes—each titled in Basque as a quiet homage to Boise’s own layered cultural heritage. These works exist somewhere between the real and the speculative, drawing from both the past and a projected future. In 2025, as global, national, and personal realities feel increasingly fractured and uncertain, Cloud Cities seeks to navigate that confusion through constructed yet ephemeral forms.

These imaginary cities—without fixed geography—evoke the visual language of dense suburban sprawl, coastal villages, hillside settlements, favelas, and cliffside towns. The ambiguity of place becomes a metaphor: Are we overwhelmed by proximity, or are we deeply nourished by the dense interconnectivity of our species? In their condensed, honeycomb-like compositions, the house forms nestle into one another organically. They suggest not only physical structures but also psychological and emotional architectures.

The work grapples with the cyclical nature of human development—our tendency to build over what once was, to convert pasture to pavement, to erase in order to create. In layering and repeating these structures, I question how humanity reinvents itself and what it leaves behind. These conglomerations point toward future habitats: sky-bound neighborhoods, floating subdivisions, or perhaps more abstract notions of “home” as a state of emotional or relational being rather than physical space.

Ultimately, Cloud Cities becomes a meditation on human resilience, adaptation, and the invisible networks—emotional, digital, and cultural—that bind us. Are we more powerful than we know? More connected than we understand? These questions linger in the structures I assemble, as I imagine new forms of belonging in an increasingly disoriented world.