Food Court Civic Center

The Food Court Civic Center, also called the FCCC or FC3, is the primary location for Bump Island civic events and public recreational services.

Architecture
The FCCC was intended as the food court for McIntire’s bumper car park. When McIntire’s project eventually stalled, it was the largest and most complete building on the island.

The building is modeled to look like Noah’s Ark, standing above the water on the west side of the island. The building is accessed by a 10 ft. wooden bridge. Built according to the dimensions laid out it the bible, the FCCC is 510 feet long, 85 feet wide, and 51 feet high.

UNESCO World Heritage Site Nomination
Bump Islanders have repeatedly attempted to get the FCCC on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In 1998, the United Nations commission released this public statement as a response:"Please stop asking. Why would we let you on our beautiful beautiful list?"

Grand Prix Crash of 2017
MLBC driver Milo Borges crashed into the Food Court Civic Center during the Bump Island Grand Prix in 2017.

Media Response
The event received worldwide attention, notably after The New York Times ran a photo of the ensuing fire on the front page of its September 21st issue. The photo showed the north half of the ark consumed by a large cloud of black smoke. The following weekend, The Baffler published a viral op-ed by Kate Wagner responding to the image.

Noah’s Ark might be the best example of the loss of meaning over time, that even one of the oldest and most well-known symbols in Christianity could become a free-floating, contextless cultural sign. The ark was manufactured as a commercial project, a far-removed, vague gesture to its origin as an Old Testament story. It’s current role on Bump Island is removed from McIntire’s vision, serving the purpose of those who currently live on the island, as the FCCC is often put forward as a somewhat clunky symbol of Bump Island nationalism. So- it’s nationalism forced onto McIntire’s corporate Christian project, which was forcing its own goals of propagandizing and profit onto a bible story. What we’ve arrived at is a moment when global capital and the technologies of information proliferation have taken away any kind of discernible history or origin to anything. From here on out, we only have hyper-mediated, floating, contextless objects to endlessly remix as we grow more bored by the day.