A group of architects and urban designers based in Berlin, Raumlabor has delivered their latest project which called as Spacebuster. It is a mobile inflatable structure that serves as a portable expandable pavilion. In cooperation with Storefront and the Goethe Institute New York, Raumlabor will bring Spacebuster to the United States which it will travel throughout New York for 10 consecutive evenings hosting various community events.
The expandable pavilion consists of an inflatable bubble which attached to its self-contained compressor housing. Since it shaped as a bubble, the pavilion can be placed anywhere possible like in a field, a wooded park, or below a highway overpass. The Spacebuster is made from sturdy specially-designed translucent plastic, allowing the varying events taking place inside of the shelter – dance parties, lecture series, or dinner buffets – to be entirely visible from the outside and likewise the exterior environments become the events’ backdrops.
The bubble can be used for a variety of social and cultural purposes. In past installations, the dome became an eat-in kitchen – equipped with a cooking station surrounded by tables and chairs. The bubble allowed cooking, a highly personal and private aspect of domestic life, to enter the urban space of a tree lined median, and simultaneously invigorated this urban park with a communal action. On another occasion the dome was transformed into a ballroom within an overgrown green space no longer open to the public. A live band, dance classes, and performances all worked to bring a cultural event to a neglected zone.
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