DreamHouse
Dear Joon, With the heart in the hands and a lot of care...because the soul can get broken, because my secrets are now your secrets....I open the window so now you can see where I was living....A Tiny Home Built By Emotions...Love <3Z
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Dear Joon, With the heart in the hands and a lot of care...because the soul can get broken, because my secrets are now your secrets....I open the window so now you can see where I was living....A Tiny Home Built By Emotions...Love <3Z 〰️
Joon, With the heart in the hands and a lot of care...because the soul can get broken, because my secrets are now your secrets...I open the window so now you can see where I was living...A Tiny Home Built By Emotions...<3 Roya Ziba
A living work in progress…
DreamHouse, 2020
8’x 10’, steel, copper paint, proprietary solar panels, polycarbonate
©️2020 Roya Ziba
This agro voltaic sculpture engages the duality and the potential for harmony between nature and technology. The walls are open, leaving room for creative transformation through visual, aural, kinetic, and living installations, a poetic metaphor for the home within ourselves and our environment.
In 2020, I collaborated with a prolific art car fabricator and a physicist from UC Santa Cruz, who created the agro voltaic panels, to construct my design for a greenhouse sculpture that could make a statement about the importance of the coalescence and balance of nature in design. Despite limited resources, I was able to construct my first “tiny home”...
I began investigating solar energy in Southern California after noticing the unaesthetic development of solar farms on prior agricultural and disturbed land - that is, land contaminated or currently unusable to prevent negative impacts on productive or high-value ecosystems. This led me to wonder if we could instead attempt to heal these lands and renew local ecosystems while generating new agricultural opportunities.
Other cities have already embraced this idea through Pollinator Friendly Solar, which involves adding pollinator-friendly and native plantings under and around ground-mounted solar arrays, replacing gravel or turf grass. This approach provides an opportunity to advance solar energy while addressing the threat of pollinator extinction, promoting demand for native plants, and supporting local agriculture and farmers.
Minnesota passed “pollinator-friendly” state legislation in 2016, and five other states have since followed suit.
