second dome
Second Dome is an pneumatic living structure designed by DOSIS for creative workspace provider Second Home. Second Dome is a reconfigurable space that can transform within minutes from a single 65 m2 bubble to a multi-room structure with over 400 m2 and 8 meters high.
Second Dome is an pneumatic living structure designed by the Spanish architecture practice DOSIS for creative workspace provider Second Home. On 1 October 2016, Second Dome was inflated in London Fields in East London to host free community events for local families and children. The events were organized by the not-for-profit organization Shuffle, and include animation workshops, film screenings, pinata-designing and science experiments. This free day of activities in London Fields is part of Second Home’s commitment to supporting local communities and civic spaces. Second Dome is a reconfigurable space that can transform within minutes from a single 65 m2 bubble to a multi-room structure with over 400 m2 and 8 meters high. No other type of structure can be assembled so quickly and also have the capacity to span large areas with a thickness of less than a millimeter. It is a technologic artefact that automatically responds to wind and pressure and that needs extremely low quantities of energy for fabrication and assembly.
Second Dome was commissioned for Founders Forum 2016, Europe's leading business and technology event to house a series of high-profile events including an exclusive talk on design and innovation with iPod co-creator and Nest founder Tony Fadell.
Second Dome is instantaneous, it responds to specific urban needs in a specific space time. It pops, acts and vanishes. Second Dome is an experience, it is matter transformed into action. Time and action defines its architecture. Tectonics respond to optionality, allowing multiplicity of reactions to urban requirements. Second Dome activates the city instantly with extremely little effort and energy.
"Second Home is all about making our cities more creative, innovative and entrepreneurial. That's why we've commissioned this pneumatic structure, which we’ll be taking to different places in the city, including London Fields in East London on 1 October.”
Rohan Silva, Second Home co-founder.
"Second Dome is such a playful space - and shows how our urban areas can fire our imagination, and can make it possible for people to come together in new ways."
Sam Aldenton, Second Home co-founder.
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Typology: Pneumatic structure
Building Area: 260 sq m.
DOSIS Design Team: Principal architects: Isabel Collado & Ignacio Peydro; Project architects: Luis Francisco Núñez, Irene Gigerey, Arantxa Fernández, Bruno Canales.
Manufacturer: Arquitextil. Lastra y Zorrilla.
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