A group of gifted students from Nebraska City traveled to the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. They visited the Flock House Omaha Project gallery, envisioned a Flock House expressing their ideas and made drawings.
Sarah – Modular unit with solar panels, cut out vents, windows, and removable side panels to connect to other family units.
Angelica – Tent-Ish Flock House, fabric walls, doors and windows, support rods, foldable tile floor. Folds up for easy travel.
Thomas – Features triangular base, wooden deck, glass walls, green fabric wood, and flag pole.
NIck Z and Nick N – Design process moves from 2 folded square pyramids, to an expanding sphere stabilized with wood supports and latches. A conceptual Flock House shows bump out.
Trey – “Hot-Air-House”
Unknown – Hexagon design develops vertical space for plants, storage, seating. Lights hanging above.
Lilly, Age 11 – Outside Flock House design is 8 ft wide and 16 ft high. Schema shows solar panels, windows and door. Inside, a recliner combines sleeping and sitting. A mini fridge is run on solar power.
Lilly – Upstairs Bathroom with sink details of drain and faucet.
Zachary – Flock House Porta-Potty
Quentin – raised Flock House on stilts with ladder. double walled with technical details (no schema.)
Unknown – Propelled Flock House with communications, food, temperature control. External solar panels and satellite dish. An unknown student said a Flock House should be “a Teepee.” Inside, “it could have a water cooler.”
Unknown – Schema showing shingles and floor plan of triangular house.
Unknown – Outside rectangular house with schema showing two floors with upper for sleeping, stairs at entry and outside area.
Unknown – By placing a person inside the structure as a reference, the designer shows “How big it is.” A ladder allows movement up and down.
Kailey – Solar panels outside and electric socket inside.
Destiny – Mobility of Flock House reflected in propellers.
Alexa – Diagram with notation icons and either an elevation or perspective drawing of a Flock House structure. Alexa’s comments on 7 Question form: Flock House “should have solid walls and no cracks.” It should be made of “wood.”
Jedidiah – Complex diagram of Flock House with possible communications active above.
Isaac – Raised Flock House