Esoteric Survey

Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona. In 2019 I was researching a plastic bubble  (aka Playspace Structures) I played on when I was a kid and I discovered it and Biosphere 2 were invented by Peter Jon Pearce, a former Eames Office employee.  He  designed and produced the frame and glazing materials for Biosphere 2. As a staff designer at the Eames Office from 1958 to 1961, he helped with the Eames Tandem Seating, Aluminum Group Base, La Fonda Base, Segmented Table Base, Time Life Chair, and Eames Sofa. More about the Eames work on his ( website ).  Funny aside, on his website I notice he lifted a photo from my blog from the time I visited the  Herman Miller archives . Biosphere 2 (Biosphere 1 is earth)  was constructed from 1987 to 1991 and  is still a functioning  controlled artificial environment dedicated to climate research. The project was started by a group of former thespian commune members with asperations of living in space. They were fund...

For years I've had a childhood memory of playing in a space age bubble. I asked my mom and she had no idea what I was talking about. My deep digging on the web never provided any leads. I remembered it was in Rohr Park in Chula Vista, which also had a mini railroad. Last week, after talking to a friend who also had memories of the bubble, I decided to do another search. It paid off.   Source: Chula Vista Star News This is the one I played on. It was constructed in 1978.  It went by many names, such as Soap Bubble Castle, Bubble Maze, Curved Space Diamond System, or Curved Space Labyrinth. The Lexan plastic structure is a "nature-based, large scale, sculptural system that maps the geometry of a diamond crystal at approximately 16 billion times its actual size".  Peter Jon Pearce created the Curved Space Diamond System to demonstrate built environments patterned after natural structures. Much along the same lines as the  Metabolism ...