Ile Flottante, in itself an investigation on self supporting “soft structures,” laminates into a single experience this distant relationship between the protected nature of the New Orleans inner-block courtyard and the extreme material forces of the city’s immediate fluid environment. The piece has a dual role in the interior of the courtyard. The lightweight structure, sensitive to wind and light, will completely transform the hard edges of the courtyards into a new visual and tactile experience. This event will temporarily substitute the rectilinear geometries with a pliant inhabitable surface that wraps the user in a seemingly wavering space. Each perforation, contains transparencies with drawings of New Orleans in relation to the Mississippi River Delta, transforming the piece into a vessel of images that highlight the contested relationship between wet and dry.