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Tropical Mining Station  

Tropical Mining Station

3149, South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL, United States

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Tropical Mining Station

3149, South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL, United States

Firm
FOAM DAO
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2015
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$0 - 10K
As a Partner Program at the Chicago Architecture Biennial FOAM DAO produced an installation, The Tropical Mining Station, and an all day symposium, The Art of Economy, hosted by Future Firm.

The Tropical Mining Station developed techniques for harnessing spatial externalities from the cryptocurrency mining processes, such as heat and airflow, to produce new atmospheric typologies and spatial programs as a node on the blockchain. This pneumatic structure, inflated from the miners cooling fans, became a space of tropical heat and surplus - an instrument made from the process of mining Ethereum.

Intangibly, the installation brought together Architects and assembled a discourse on blockchain technology, crypto-architecture, and the potential of these developments, which had previously only existed as a decentralized virtual community.

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