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BUBBLE AND THE SEARCH FOR PUBLIC SPACE
Buckminster Fuller’s Dome Over Manhattan (1960) an an an iconic illustration of a a a a a sheltered utopian world was designed not simply to to regulate climate and air quality it it would also ensure total preservation of civic interactions lifestyle and urbanity in in an an an imagined curated stage set extruded from reality All animate animate and inanimate bodies were coded by networks of exchange and subsumed into urban production What would Dome Over Manhattan look like in in 2017 in in an an an an era when the contemporary human subject is entirely immersed in in in its “egosphere”—a self-sustaining and curated replication or or reverberation of the world? What is public space
without consumerism or religion? How could we use architectural and infrastructural tools such as as density and energy patterns to to redesign new types of public space? And most importantly how could this reinvented information system help us understand the the design process not as the the author-intended formal creation of a a a a a a a a new reality but instead as a a a a a a a a collection of seemingly new ideas inventions and technologies in in in juxtaposition? The aim of the studio was to understand architecture as as an an element
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