Bompas & Parr, is a London based studio which merges food, architecture and art, creating  amazing food experiences often working on an architectural scale with cutting edge technology.

Some of their projects includes:

The Ziggurat of Flavour

The Ziggurat of Flavour is a pyramidal installation containing a cloud of breathable fruit. For the first time ever visitors will be able to contribute to their five-a-day just by breathing.After negotiating the dense mist of vaporized fruit, visitors emerge onto a slide at the top of the structure. As they slide back down  their kinetic energy will be harnessed to make the cloud even denser.

The fruit cloud is formatted as a labyrinth you can taste. The fresh fruit is being prepared onsite, liquefied through Heath Robinesque machinery and clarified though reverse osmosis.

Taste becomes spatialised as a public realm, scaled up from bodily interior to building interior. In this way the fruit becomes architecture – an immersive, habitable environment.

The Ziggurat of Flavour draws inspiration from 18^th Century Cuccagna monuments. These formed the centerpieces for the most spectacular public celebrations in history.  They were vast architectural structures made of food based on the peasant tale of the Land of Cockaigne; a mythical place with mountains of cheese, rainstorms of cake and where all wildlife was pre-cooked and waiting to be eaten.

Architectural Punchbowl

Architectural Punchbowl is a project where the briefing was to  explode cocktails to the scale of buildings. As a result they flooded 33 Portland Place with over four tonnes of punch – enough for 25,000 people. The Punchbowl was so large that engineers Arup had to make sure the building wouldn’t collapse under the weight of alcohol. Visitors rafted across the punch before having a drink and toying with the remote control garnishes.

Alcoholic Architecture

The UK’s first walk-in cocktail

Alcoholic Architecture is a walk-in cloud of breathable cocktail. Visitors donned protective suits before entering into a mist of vaporised gin and tonic which they imbibed through inhaling.

‘Unlimited Urban Woods’ is a project by Dus Architects, where you can disappear into an endless forrest with just  a few square meters, by placing a real tree into a cubic space of mirrors, the tree gets repeated endlessly, creating the feeling of a forrest.

Via: Next Nature

Temporary interventions at the border between public and private space

City-eyes addresses the border between the private and public domain. Subject of research are the Amsterdam windows: as windows are the eyes of the city. City-eyes offers a personal view into the souls of Amsterdam homes and thereby reveals the city’s hidden stories.

All window events are miniature test cases, playing with the characteristics of the window as a screen between interior and exterior. This way, one’s private parquet will be part of the outdoor pavement for a moment, and the city becomes home.

window event 03
title: BREAKFAST
date: Wednesday may 6th
window: Private home, Indische Buurt
Delicious breakfast for two. At a table that connects street and living room. Inside and outside. They belong together.

For the whole investigation:
city eyes.nl

Project: City Eyes
Location: Several windows in Amsterdam
Realization: 2008 -
Projectteam: Hans Vermeulen, Martine de Wit, Hedwig Heinsman, Laura de Graaff
Thanks to: Iittala, KEI

Via Guerrilla Innovation

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a project by the architecture studio Mésarchitectures , made by the architect Didier Fiuza Faustino of Paris.  The project consisted on  a pair of swing seats on a billboard frame, it´s conceived as a mobile installation and can be erected around an existing billboard.

They explain about the project:

THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

SPECIFICITY
Urban reanimation device

PURPOSE

The Unbearable Lightness of Being responds to the society of materialism where individual desires seems to be prevailing over all.

This piece of urban furniture, by being nomad, allows the reactivation of different public spaces. It enables inhabitants to reappropriate fragments of their city. They will both escape and dominate public space through a game of equilibrium and desequilibrium.

By playing this “risky” game, and testing their own limits, two people can experience together a new perception of space, void, lightness and recover an awarness of the physical world.

This hybrid object, meaningfull only through the body, being all at once physical and social may be a tool for a collective experience of fragility.

MATERIAL

Billboard and swings mix , steel ladder, steel lattice platform, protective nets on steel structure, waterproof floodlights.
(Can be set up on existing billboard)

Via: Dezeen