Remix the City: Conference Project Post #1 — Bubble Tent

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For my conference project I am going to make a a tent out of bubble wrap. I want to put lights on the inside and cushions on the floor and make it a space that contrasts with the cold impersonal tone of heimbold. As you can see from my bizarre and out of scale sketch; I am thinking of putting this space on the first floor next to that strange space with the low ceiling in the hallway.

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Sassen writes about the overwhelming enormity and anonymity of contemporary cities. When we described the visual code of heimbold as a class we attributed similar adjectives to the interior of the building. With this tent I hope to create an example of, as Sassen puts it, “modest public spaces, constituted through the practices of people and critical architectural interventions that are on small or medium level scales”.

In the lower level of heimbold I see  “possible architectures where there now is merely a formal silence”. Through this intervention I hope to bring that possibility to life with a structure that alters behavior.

Author: Mariko Kamiya