Levitas is a photographic essay. It mixes photographs, plans, models, newspaper articles, official and scientific documents to make the case for a new kind of architecture, one that moves, adapts and respects the environment.

It draws on Archigram and on Yona Friedman's research into mobile houses, and in particular his spatial cities. The project takes the form of a fake urban planning proposal, set in a world where an upgraded human lives in balance with both nature and technology.

The starting point is simple. Cities today can barely evolve, let alone change radically. Friedman imagined a society where the city is reorganized so that a mobile house can follow its owner, carried by a fixed structure. For him, lifting cities off the ground could bring some balance back, to cities and to whole countries.

From there, I thought of the project as a testing ground for rethinking how we live together, a world that feels both close and far away. Along the way, new questions came up. How do you design cities like these without damaging the environment and the land they sit on?

I focused on flying houses and magnetic levitation. A magnetic field produced by supercurrents pushes a magnetic component away. The house hovers at the exact distance where that repulsive force balances out gravity.

It's part design, part art, part science. Mostly it's a way to dream a little, and to think about where society could go.