The French magazine Stiletto asked SOFTlab to work on a project for their December edition of the magazine. The theme was Utopia.
As architects, this is of course a pretty loaded theme. We were given free reign but the theme had to incorporate 6 different pairs of stiletto shoes/boots, part of course of the overall theme of the magazine itself. The city was thought of as a pattern, and as a bow and counterpoint to Superstudio, it is a distorted, continuous grid that is both landscape and infrastructure, city and world, nature and artifice.
The shoes then, became the towers that break the pattern. Fashion as a liberator you might say?
The team were:
Mike Szivos, Jose Gonzalez, Jason McGee, Masami Ueki and Anjas Maroef.