Oxygen House Project (Plan)

Douglas Darden · 1988

This is the plan for the Oxygen House, drawn by Douglas Darden in nineteen eighty-eight in pencil, ink, crayon and charcoal. Darden designed buildings that were never meant to be built — this one for a man kept alive by machine — and published them as narratives with drawings attached.

Medium Pencil, ink, crayon, charcoal and paper · Dimensions 34 x 28" (86.4 x 71.1 cm) · Credit Gift of Allison Collins

Hanging beside it in Gallery 417: International Space Station Habitation Module, NASA, project,, Slow House Project, North Haven, New York (Plan of lower-level and sections)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Biotecture, American System-Built Houses for The Richards Company project (Exterior perspective of model A101), Terrarium Showroom project, California (Scale model, 1/16" = 1'), Terrarium Showroom, Elevations, American System-Built Houses for The Richards Company, project, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Isometric plan of model J900, Slow House Project, North Haven, New York (Plan of lower-level and sections)