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Cesar Harada and Hiromi Ozaki recently presented the Open_Sailing project at the Barbican London, as a part of the Radical Nature exhibition curated by Francesco Manacorda, with a strong emphase on the social aspect of Open_Sailing rather than on the engineering of the object. A serie of engineering videos should follow this winter, to explain the physics behind our project. That day, Frank Gutzeit (Collaborator with Wolf Hilbertz) also explained the technics to grow artificial coral reefs.

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2009 / 04 / 27
It took us about 16 hours to build this 1/3 scale model of the open_sailing for a photoshoot at AutoItalia in Peckham London.

size of model : 4m ø
size of the real Open_Sailing : 9.6m ø

Duration of model construction : 16 hours
Expected duration of the real vessel : 30 days

Starring :Colet Castano, Cesar Harada, Nasser Moustakim, Ollie Palmer

Thanks to :Eva Kellenberger, Sebastian White, Theo Cook
AutoItalia Peckham

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We want to live at sea.
And we want to do it well: comfortably, sustainably and safely.
We want delicious food, a great social life, space to work and play.
We've come together; a diverse team from all walks of life to design our future on the ocean.
With our combined skills, we're pioneering innovative architecture, navigation and sea farming techniques.

The Urban Space Station is an open urban agriculture and parasite architecture project. Its objective is to enhance life quaility (air, water, temperature, food, waste, social cohesion...) in cities and in outer space mission by complementing human existence with fauna and flora.

This USS is the first prototype at ~40% of the "real one" designed by Natalie Jeremijenko (NYU) and Angel Borrego (OSS), performed by Cesar Harada (RCA).

You will find complete documentation about the open source project on our website :
urbanspacestation.org
Please contribute and feel free to use and modify the design.

A film by Cesar Harada :
cesarharada.com

experiment to generate patterns found on the surface of brain coral(and then get it to 'breathe'). built with Processing.