LowDO Architects who Build Austin, TX and Tema, GH
Architects who Build Austin, TX and Tema, GH
Bambot: Fufuzela MoMA PS1 YAP
Trade
Collaborator
ATMOSPHERES DESIGN
PANURBAN, DR. YASMINE ABBAS
CANOPY BIODESIGN
FABER FUTURES, NATSAI CHIEZA WITH DR. BRENDA PARKER
FABRICATION AND JOINT DESIGN
DROPHOUSE DESIGN, CHRISTIAN KLEIN AND MATT SATTER
STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT
FORT STRUCTURES, SAM COVEY
PRODUCTION SUPPORT
PENN STATE STUCKEMAN SCHOOL, HUMANITARIAN MATERIALS LAB, SAM RUBENSTEIN AND DANIELLE VICKERS; DIGITAL FABRICATION LAB, JAMIE HEILMAN AND DANI SPEWAK
Description

FUFUZELA are free modular mobile #BAMBOTS (bamboo micro-infrastructure) that interoperate at the scale between furniture and architecture. Designed for self-assembly, fufuzela are—like deer and sheep—irregular plurals that are simultaneously one and many. In a world at war with itself, how can we accommodate the multiplicity of a multicultural multiverse? Fufuzela create scaffolding for shared experience: By embodying material ecologies of symbiosis, fufuzela enable new forms of stigmergic interspecies interaction with the city and one another.

FUFUZELA are a freely accessible open-source architecture for celebrating diversity (the design code for fabrication and assembly shall be disseminated online via free digital blueprints), enabling people to make them together, in their own communities, to (re)connect as human beings. Installed as a dynamic and reconfigurable green armature for rewilding the city, BAMBOT: FUFUZELA transforms the MoMA PS1 courtyards into an experiential bio-design lab that maps propagations of the present and empowers people to plant seeds for the future.

Photos
01 Entry
02 Aerial dark
03 Sitting view
04 Stage view
05 View to stage
06 Detail
07 Exterior view
08 Courtyard view
09 View from courtyard
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Drawings
drawing Site plan
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