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Gradient Architecture

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Commercial › Retail
Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant Bar/Nightclub
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Government + Health ›
Landscape + Planning › Public Park

Bubble Canopy is a flexible covered outdoor event space to be used in concert with a recently renovated historic building in, Washington DC.
The covered area is intended to serve multiple outdoor functions including a market, private event space, and a public use garden. The result is a parametrically driven geometry that can be adapted for an unlimited number of configurations, scales, and contexts. Each pairing of the canopy units is driven by its intended programmatic use. Small clustered groupings are geared toward markets and more intimate gardens, where larger canopies provide clear spans capable of housing public and private events.
The form of the canopy serves as a funnel diverting the path of rain water in a way that celebrates its use as a high performance rain shed. At the base of the funnel, water is released from a short distance above the ground into a drain grating creating the sounds of falling water and feeding the garden plants which surround the base of each canopy unit.
Bubble canopy has evolved into a highly adaptable urban cover system that is capable of activating under-utilized plazas into unique programmed public and private use event spaces and gardens.