[P2P-F] Cloud 9 Bubble Building in barcelona

[Michel Bauwens]

 Cloud 9 Bubble
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Eric
Hunting <erichunting at gmail.com> Jul 15 09:44AM -0600
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http://inhabitat.com/cloud-9s-incredible-inflatable-bubble-building-opens-in-barcelona/

I've often had this fantasy -a sort of parallel to the 'outquisition'- of a
post-industrial future where neo-tribal communities appropriate the
abandoned suburban 'office parks' of the failed 20th century economy and
convert their buildings by eco-tech retrofit into palatial 'bolo-like
micro-arcos, the different functional zones of a community organized by
floor level. This building just opened in Barcelona is almost exactly how I
imaged these to be -the original structures stripped to a simple series of
open decks, a new enclosure 'skin' supported by retrofit space frames, an
opening of perimeter spaces into open terraces, integral rainwater
catchment, PVs and hydroponic gardens, open plan dwellings based on retrofit
partitions, etc.

I once tried to get a comic artist friend of mine interested in doing a
comic book series based on the theme of a Maker 'tribe' supported by a
shadowy secret benefactor (as well as, at different times, other
counter-cultural tribes of the emergent post-industrial future) that would
travel the world to solve various communities' problems, avert or abate
environmental disasters, and engage in geopolitical monkey-wrenching using
their unique eco-tech/open-tech skills. They would have had a series of
these 'bolo-like HQs in their extended tribe, made by various forms of
adaptive reuse in different places in the world, some more secretive or
public, permanent or temporary. And, of course, they would have had their
own unique collection of, sometimes fanciful, eco-tech vehicles. Imagine a
green batmobile... I thought this a good vehicle to introduce kids to
environmental issues, green technology, open technology, and post-industrial
cultural concepts. Alas, the concept was far too elaborate and
science/tech-oriented for him.

Eric Hunting
erichunting at gmail.com

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