The Inflatable Villa

Floating Inflatable Villa is Pons’ reaction to Miami’s real estate boom and to the inflated architecture embedded in a property value system equally inflated by hoards of realtors. While Miami architecture has always been about fantasy, Pons is unhappy about the new crop of pseudo-Palladian Mc Mansions, which are characterized by their predictable use of columns, capitals, pilasters, arches, keystones, fountains, and statues. Uninspired Miami architecture, Pons says, “fails to engage, and instead confronts an aggressively unattractive symbol of our architecturally inflated and environmentally impoverished age.” Surprisingly enough, Andrea Palladio, whose work was the model for the 21st Century Miami mansion, was a brilliant practitioner of environmentally integrated residential design - something that these “Mc Mansions” fail to achieve.