ABSTRACT
A tower without typical plans, but with specific rooms and geometries, will demand atypical actions. In the 1993 essay, Typical Plan, Rem Koolhaas declared the values of deep, rectangular, neutral, repetitious platforms for pure objectivity. The 'typical plan' provides a characterless environment fit for indeterminacies and open possibilities. Tower of Twelve Stories is a 52' tall object at the site of the 2016 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. It is a stack of cartoonish bubbles stacked vertically. Cartoonish metropolis is a drawing that articulates this notion of an atypical life, where tiny bubble-like worlds are populated by eccentric characters. Bureau Spectacular has built the monumental White Elephant, now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as the Taiwan Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. The Tower of Twelve Stories is the largest project of Bureau Spectacular to date.
