Fun: Jimenez Lai's Los Angeles-based architecture firm Bureau Spectacular designed and built the Phalanstery Module you see here. It's a conceptual living space that slowly rotates—not horizontally, like some cheesy restaurant, but vertically.

This installation grew from the hypothesizes that in zero-gravity, one can rotate in architecture and treat all surfaces as plans - i.e., walls, ceilings and floors. Without gravity, all surfaces can be occupied. The distinctions between orthographic drawings become obsolete.

To this end, the installation is a structure rotating once an hour - at the same rate as a clock. Every 15 minutes, one of the surfaces become parallel to the ground. In the middle of every 7.5 minute conversation, two people are bound to collide. Architectural program and activities become overpowered by the instinctive interpretations of our bodies against measurable dimensions. This installation is derived from a comic story written and illustrated by Jimenez about a group of citizens riding a Noah's Ark Spaceship to a new planet far away.

Drinking one beer inside, fine.
Drinking four or five beers, not a good idea.

Drinking one beer inside, fine.
Drinking four or five beers, not a good idea.