Ilkka Halso’s Museum of Nature:

“Museum of Nature is next step in continuum of imaginative nature restoring project, which started year 2000 as Restoration exhibition. Restoration series was about restoring single nature objects in means of technology and building skills. Museum project takes one step further. I make plans and construct visually buildings, which protect nature from treaths of pollution and and what is more important from actions of man himself. I visualize shelters, massive buildings where big ecosystems could be stored as at present. These massive building protect forests, lakes and rivers from pollution and what is more important from actions of man himself. At the same time I study different aspects of mans relation to nature as rare unique endangered place.”

reinforcednatures:

Folly for a Flyover by Assemble

More:

http://www.dezeen.com/2011/07/05/folly-for-a-flyover-by-assemble/#more-137156

polychroniadis:

The mass protests on 20 May under the new Metropol Parasol in Seville, by Jürgen Mayer H.

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Apparently Google has invested $US1.05 million into this scheme - a form of alternative transportation that places people in plastic tubes so that they can cycle to their destination whilst hung upside down

In the tradition of Archigram and José Miguel de Prada Poole

Magnetorheological fluid is a type of smart fluid in a carrier fluid, usually a type of oil. When subjected to a magnetic field, the fluid greatly increases its apparent viscosity, to the point of becoming a viscoelastic solid.

Perhaps we can imagine an application for a shelter that would be liquid but become rigid under the magnetic fields of electricity pylons. The gypsy would then follow the electricity lines for shelter.