Float

Uriel Studio, a product design brand, steps out of its comfort zone and offers a design project on an architectural scale—a proposal for camping in outer space. The global energy crisis, and as a result, an endless chain of crises, force humanity to seek new avenues for energy and settlement. “Float" is a textile work anchored to the facade of a building. In this product, Uriel, as the designer, and Moran, as the architect, quote NASA's probe sent to Mars in 1997, giving it an updated analysis and interpretation. A connected inner tent , also filled with air, allows a window into the structure of the probe and the core of the project.

Uriel mixes science and mysticism, examining what security is in the face of existential minimalism, encoding human myths into shapes and raw materials. Hansen House, formerly a leper hospital with a history of medical research and treatment, serves as a soft and receptive platform for the spacecraft, with the probe penetrating the center of the building, forming a docking station. The anchored probe, which maintains its full, inflated form, blends with the structure, transforming it into a space/station of its own.