Paige working in NYC Flock House at Bemis Center – Old Market

This fall Paige will be a high school junior in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Her response to the NYC Flock House focused its “harmony, structure and sense of seclusion,” but also “togetherness.” She can see how Mary Mattingly’s dystopian photographs of a post-human environment “tie in with the Flock House.” To create a self-sustaining unit means to “collect water, create a garden on or around, and lots of surface space for solar energy.” Recycled materials would be “common ones like paper, plastic and aluminum.”

Paige’s interest is in making “the Flock House functional and livable, while also keeping the character and original purpose.” This would mean spending time there, staying overnight, and visiting set up Flock House communities.  In a challenging environment, “the Flock House serves as a place of salvation and isolation in a ‘Brave New World/1984ish’ future. A place where things can still be created.”

Paige’s designs are from a recycled bus and a technically upscale air balloon.

Paige’s hot air balloon is a Flock House.

Paige recycled a ready to travel school bus by placing gardens on the roof and furnishing livable interior space.