The Urban Space Station is an open urban agriculture and parasite architecture project. Its objective is to enhance life quaility (air, water, temperature, food, waste, social cohesion...) in cities and in outer space mission by complementing human existence with fauna and flora.

This USS is the first prototype at ~40% of the "real one" designed by Natalie Jeremijenko (NYU) and Angel Borrego (OSS), performed by Cesar Harada (RCA).

You will find complete documentation about the open source project on our website :
urbanspacestation.org
Please contribute and feel free to use and modify the design.

A film by Cesar Harada :
cesarharada.com

experiment to generate patterns found on the surface of brain coral(and then get it to 'breathe'). built with Processing.

Burble London, open to the public to celebrate London Fashion Week, launched at 8.20pm on Sunday September 16, 2007 at Holland Park, London.

The Burble is a massive carbon-fibre structure reaching up towards the sky, composed of approximately 1000 extra-large helium balloons each of which contains microcontrollers and LEDs that create spectacular patterns of light across the surface of the structure.

The Burble is held down to the ground by the combined weight of the crowds holding on to the handle bar. They may position it as they like. They may curve in on themselves, or pull it in a straight line - the form is a combination of the crowd's desires and the impact of wind currents varying throughout the height of the Burble.

As people on the ground shake and pump the handle bars of the Burble, they see their movements echoed as colours through the entire system. Part installation, part performance, the Burble enables people to contribute at an urban scale to a structure that occupies their city, albeit for only one night.

More info: haque.co.uk/burblelondon.php

The show stealer at GLOW yesterday was hands down, Usman Haque’s Primal Source. Ask anyone who went, what the best thing they saw was, and odds are good that they will say “that giant fountain projection thing”. On so many levels, this was an incredible art installation ~ a GIANT screen of water that with rear projection, set up such that the dark night sky served as the perfect backdrop for the perfectly clear visualizations - but it’s not just about watching, the group interaction element was there too: a series of microphones against the fence encourage the audience to participate by screaming into them in order to directly alter the visualizations. (Read more on NOTCOT.com)