For PARK(ing) Day 2013, INTERSTICE created a glowing, inhabitable bubble, the DRAGON:bubble.

DRAGON:bubble is a multi-chamber, inflatable structure made from 4 mil. translucent polyethylene and fluorescent green duct tape. The entire pop-up environment weighs less than a person and folds flat to be stored and transported to another location.

Once inflated, three distinct bubble “rooms” intersect to produce a series of interconnected spaces. The “skin” was created by projecting the structural algorithm of a dragonfly’s wing onto the intersecting spheroids. The surface was then flattened through digital manipulation into hundreds of 2-dimensional polyhedron shapes, which were then taped together to form the complex geometry of the final 3-dimensional form.

Inside, the blue grass of the DRAGON:bubble floor creates an other-worldly experience, complete with dynamic balloons that take flight and circulate throughout the spaces. One can relax on soft, inflated spherical furnishings of various sizes to fit the user’s body.

INTERSTICE created an integrated landscape that relates with the reconfigured campus core surrounding the USF Center for Science and Innovation (CSI) by weaving through the new academic LEED Gold building located at the heart of USF’s urban campus. The project comprehensively redefines the existing central plaza as a bi-level, folded landscape which entangles and blurs interior and exterior space, creating multi-level access to buildings and landscape. This high-performing landscape includes significant storm water filtration areas, water re-use for native planting irrigation and ecologically intensive habitat areas that correlate with the Center’s larger pedagogical objectives. A tree-lined Campus Walk, an undulating lawn and a dining amphitheater provide a social landscape space that supports campus rituals, daily gatherings and special activities in a sustainable and supportive relationship to the larger, Bay area regional ecologies.

Thanks to everyone who made it to our Summer Party: BLUE.  It was a great success!

Check out some of the photos below.