capsule
1972.
In 1962. Jurij Gagarin was launched in Space, in 1969. Neil Armstrong walked
on Moon, and futuristic dreams were going to be true. There was a bookstore
on the 57th street on the third floor (PRudolph's office was on the seventh)
where I found two fantastic books, "Dymaxion World of Buckminster
Fuller", and "Archigram". They opened some new way of techno
- futuristic thinking. In some way, it corresponded with realism of Rudolph's "20th
century bricks", with Habitat in Montreal and Japanese metabolism.
Tokyo Nakagin Tower of K.Kurokawa with attached capsules was published
in those days.
I was deeply touched with promising new age and possible new architecture.
As a tribute capsule architecture, I drew my capsule for the time ahead.
It assumed new materials, lighter, stronger, thinner, with better insulation.
Capsule was to be cheap and mass produced, easily transported in kit parts
and simple set up. Future imagination calculated with different kind of
food (scientist nutrition alike with astronauts), different kind of cloth
(in Dymaxion, people were nude), and possibly different kind of family
(those days it looked likely that something would change?).
Unique capsule of 285 cm (9'6'') by 285 (9'6'') can serve for different
purpose:
-Rest capsule (sleeping, sex, relaxation)
-Eating capsule (food, drink, nutrition)
-Work capsule (education, play, computer service)
-Social capsule (meetings, common gatherings, hologram) |
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