For the Micro City Lab exhibition curated by Somi Sim, People’s Architecture Office proposed Pipe Dreams. It is an ad hoc on-site installation created in four days.

The intervention is located at Gong Indie Art Space, a gallery situated on the second floor of a large factory complex. The project is inspired by the numerous micro factories that are tucked deep in the nooks and crannies of the megacity of Seoul. The micro factories are “connected” only by their contribution to the city’s atmosphere, transported through networks of sprawling ducts.

The intervention inverts this relationship. A Korean BBQ is placed on the street and functions as a micro factory producing food for passers-by, and the exhaust is piped through ventilation ducts into the interior of Gong Art Space, where it is captured as exhibited work on canvas to be admired.