Giant Orb to float on Gowanus Canal for six months
Effed in Park Slope | Tuesday, November 5, 2013 at 12:00PM Another day, another Kickstarter campaign. This one is to help bring a work of "Performance Architecture" called The Harvest Dome to the murky waters of the Gowanus Canal. Here's a little tidbit about the dome:
The Harvest Dome is a giant floating diaphanous orb built for the New York City waterways. A 24ft-diameter cupola made from over 450 reclaimed umbrellas floating atop 128 empty two-liter soda bottles, Harvest Dome transforms the eight-pointed steel umbrella frame, a quintessential piece of urban detritus, into the transcendent form of an architectural dome for the water, to float alongside and bring attention to one of the last remaining detritus-rich tidal saltmarshes of Manhattan, Spuyten Duyvil Creek at the Inwood Hill Park Inlet. Deploying stormsnapped and reject umbrellas to form a giant diaphanous Dome also evokes the massive plumes of combined sewer overflow plaguing the Gowanus after every storm. It is estimated that in an average year, the Gowanus Canal receives more than 370 million gallons of mixed sewage and stormwater runoff from our overburdened sewer system.
Okay then. Assuming the funding comes through, the Dome will float across from the new Whole Foods, and remind us all that we're buying overpriced groceries right next to a superfund site. Should be cool!
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