Change Now x KiteLab

The flying house

Design of an open, cantilevered structure for the entrance of Change Now at the Grand <Palais in Paris in April 2025. Like a kite, this structure uses a method relatively similar to taht of an aerodyne: structural reflection, meticulous assembly, and the use of sails. Like a giant bird enclosed in this large Parisian aviary, this work landed within the Grand Palais with one objective: to present the following story :

The Flying House

" In the past, humans looked up at the sky with a wild desire: to fly.They watched the clouds drifting by, the leaves dancing in the wind, the seeds swirling toward the horizon.But they, bound to the ground, only piled up stones and raised stiff, rigid towers, believing they were reaching the sky.

One day, a builder refused to stack stones.He no longer wanted to raise a monument, but a bird, ready to take flight.He sat facing the wind and reflected.Then he drew on the ground the outline of a house that would not block the light, nor strike into the earth, not break apart the wind. A house that would not fight the elements, but dance with them.

He built neither walls nor roofs, but a weaving of open, colorful shapes, like a kite.It was called “the flying house” because it did not weigh down the world—it hovered above it.

And for the first time, without machines, without artifice, humans realized they had always known how to fly.They had only forgotten."