As one umbrella is a cheap, portable
shelter for a single person, many can become shelter for a group of
people, in
Kengo Kuma's Casa Umbrella, made of ordinary umbrellas modified with
extra flaps and zippers sewn on the edges. The umbrellas are combined to
form a Buckminster Fuller dome, with any number of entrances and windows.
Kuma's aim, he said in a recent interview, is to "recover the tradition of japanese buildings" and to reinterpret it for the 21st century: see more of his designs in Spacehacking.
This is just one of the
99 things you can do in the city, a 2008 exhibit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Other things include fruit-harvesting, trash architecture, guerilla gardening, freegan dumpster-diving, foam & velour suits to challenge urban brutalism, and a Rebel Clown Army.
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