Welcome to Wonderland takes its inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s book A lice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This project celebrates the imagination of Silicon Valley and San Jose. Silicon Valley has long been known for pushing boundaries in technology. By creating an eccentric Biome composed of gigantic flora, Welcome to Wonderland celebrates imagination and wonder, and drives the innovative spirit.

The multi-scaled flora is packed into a huge figurative, imaginary box. Those portions of the flora that protrude outside the box are sliced off. You will recognize the imaginary box from a distance. In close proximity, the box loses its boundary and becomes more diaphanous.

Welcome to Wonderland does not take sides, neither sculpture nor architecture. This ambivalence is the definition of this Biome. Sculpture generally conveys the perception of a visual art form that is composed of solid objects. A sculpture as such, affords you the possibility of perceiving a sculpture. In other words, a thing seen or perceived by human beings elicits the affordance of being perceived as a sculpture. Through the introduction of the interaction between the multiple sculptures and the circulation, this project invokes another potentiality. A potentiality which never releases in the relationship between human beings and an individual object. This perceived affordance, the quality of non-sculpture and non-architecture, creates a new world that is this Biome.