Edra Soto: Design
Navillus Woodworks: Design Engineering, Fabrication, Installation
Chicago Botanic Garden
Inspired by my native Puerto Rico’s built environment, Casa-Isla | House-Island considers the idiosyncratic architecture and designs of lower- and middle-class homes, redeploying those elements in architectural representations. The horizontal shapes floating on the water allude to the topography of the island of Puerto Rico and a notion of the house as a vessel. In this sense, the work becomes a reflection on states of isolation and the idea of homes as topographical spaces that contain private histories.
