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Burble Bup City of Dreams Pavilion 2011
Burble Bup City of Dreams Pavilion 2011
New York, NY, United States
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Burble Bup City of Dreams Pavilion 2011
New York, NY, United States
Burble Bup is the earthen and inflatable answer to the
second annual FIGMENT/ENYA/SEAoNY City of Dreams Pavilion Competition. Built of
tactile materials the pavilion is a place of touch, interaction, play, and
humorous social engagement. Thin membranes hold air and wood chips in bizarre
and colorful volumes, attracting people to play underneath its dangling canopy
and engage with their environment and neighbors in strange and interesting new
ways. Designed to be played with, Burble Bup comes alive when filled with
people hugging, punching, and petting it. This is encouraged throughout the
summer with spontaneous and organized performances occurring in and around the
pavilion, exciting the soft and supple structure.
Unlike most pavilions, the soil berms produce a private
interior with whorls of smaller spaces knotted around its periphery. These soil
mounds, constructed of soil and bark-filled fabric tubes, provide sitting and
climbing surfaces. The exterior gradually mounds up in a series of grassy
benches rising to form a visual and acoustical boundary for the pavilion’s
interior where public performances, as well as private small talk, can be
enjoyed.
Erected in the courtyard of Liggett Hall during Governors
Island’s summer festivities, Burble Bup is a pavilion of two parts. The first,
a dome, is made from individual custom-designed components (Bups) with a unique
morphology that allows them to be connected together in a variety of ways.
Their articulated, bloated and textured limbs provide a sticky connection to
join neighboring Bups. The other portion of the pavilion is a landscape zone
that gently rises to provide privacy and structural support for the dome.
Burble Bup is sustainable in many ways: some materials
are to be recycled; others will be re-used. Bittertang anticipates that the
non-toxic inflatables will be re-used as floating toys at various NYC pools
after the summer season ends. The fabric used for the soil tubes will be
composted. The Pampas Grass and soil filling the tubes will be distributed to
landscape projects on the island. All of the materials were chosen for their
ability to enhance our surroundings after their deployment in the pavilion.
second annual FIGMENT/ENYA/SEAoNY City of Dreams Pavilion Competition. Built of
tactile materials the pavilion is a place of touch, interaction, play, and
humorous social engagement. Thin membranes hold air and wood chips in bizarre
and colorful volumes, attracting people to play underneath its dangling canopy
and engage with their environment and neighbors in strange and interesting new
ways. Designed to be played with, Burble Bup comes alive when filled with
people hugging, punching, and petting it. This is encouraged throughout the
summer with spontaneous and organized performances occurring in and around the
pavilion, exciting the soft and supple structure.
Unlike most pavilions, the soil berms produce a private
interior with whorls of smaller spaces knotted around its periphery. These soil
mounds, constructed of soil and bark-filled fabric tubes, provide sitting and
climbing surfaces. The exterior gradually mounds up in a series of grassy
benches rising to form a visual and acoustical boundary for the pavilion’s
interior where public performances, as well as private small talk, can be
enjoyed.
Erected in the courtyard of Liggett Hall during Governors
Island’s summer festivities, Burble Bup is a pavilion of two parts. The first,
a dome, is made from individual custom-designed components (Bups) with a unique
morphology that allows them to be connected together in a variety of ways.
Their articulated, bloated and textured limbs provide a sticky connection to
join neighboring Bups. The other portion of the pavilion is a landscape zone
that gently rises to provide privacy and structural support for the dome.
Burble Bup is sustainable in many ways: some materials
are to be recycled; others will be re-used. Bittertang anticipates that the
non-toxic inflatables will be re-used as floating toys at various NYC pools
after the summer season ends. The fabric used for the soil tubes will be
composted. The Pampas Grass and soil filling the tubes will be distributed to
landscape projects on the island. All of the materials were chosen for their
ability to enhance our surroundings after their deployment in the pavilion.
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