Flock House is an airborne habitat that imagines, projects, and adds another level onto the city’s skyline. On June 20, it will be a living prototype, inhabitants will imagine and experience some level of the capsule living in a future dependent on mobile cities (the flock house will have wheels on the bottom) while the elevated habitat will be able to cope with rising sea levels.

In 2025, the Global Urban Observatory predicts that city dwellers will reach 5 billion. New Yorker’s can: move to the water, inhabit Governor’s Island, crowd Long Island, and/or take to the sky. Flock House is a proposal for a space where “the sky’s the limit...”

Flock House Residency, paul lloyd sargent: day two

This morning I decided that I’d document the bike route I’ve been taking to get down here, so here it is, according to GoogleMaps:

And here it is, according to me and my amazing rendering skills:

Basically, this is what the trip looks like, as documented by cell phone camera, starting in Crown Heights at the corner of Empire and Washington and wandering on down toward DUMBO…

In keeping with my daily routine here, I spent the first half-hour this morning cleaning up more junk off of the DUMBO beachfront.  This is what I collected today:

-paul