The public architecture installation
Head in the Clouds... was completed for the 2013 edition of
FIGMENT in
Governor's Island Park, New York. It was one of the winners of the
American Institute of Architects's Small Projects Awards. The structure is created using 53,780 recycled bottles. StudioKCA was able to collect the bottles and construct the space with over 200 volunteers.Sand, water jugs, and aluminium provide seating for around 50 people within the pavilion. This design won multiple awards, including: 2013 Interior Design Best of Year Award; 2014 Architizer A+ Award Finalist; and the 2016 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award. The NASA Orbit Pavilion was located first in New York City for the 2015
World Science Festival before being moved to the
Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Gardens in 2016. The aluminum structure and
surround sound speakers, designed by Shane Myrbeck from Arup SoundLab, relay the noises of NASA satellites in space. Working with the nonprofit group Friends of Governors Island in 2017, StudioKCA designed mobile information units to try to bring solar powered, wireless connection to the public in Governors Island as information stations. The Skyscraper project, otherwise known as The Bruges Whale, was completed in 2018 by StudioKCA with the help of sponsor Triennale Brugge. The 38-foot-tall blue whale is composed of over 5 tons of plastic collected from the Pacific Ocean and picked from Hawaiian beaches by StudioKCA, the Hawaii Wildlife Fund, and the Surfrider Foundation Kaui Chapter. ==References==