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+ | This survey has been conducted in books, online and other sources, partly resting on previous experience with and interest in inflated projects. This survey can be interesting to all those working or willing to work with inflatable constructions, | ||
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+ | There are some books and magazines about inflated projects but these mostly limit themselves to a survey of inflatable architecture or inflated art-objects and design. My survey will include many different inflated things which have an inflated nature such as: | ||
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+ | there are a few material libraries in europe, but none have a section focused for inflatables | ||
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[[Italo Calvino]] underlines this quality as one of his ‘Six Memos for the Next Millennium’, | [[Italo Calvino]] underlines this quality as one of his ‘Six Memos for the Next Millennium’, | ||
Imagine a life more light and imagine it to be constructed more mobile, flexible, portable, organic and more related to our natural surroundings and the elements, and that we can create our homes or shelters wherever our heart is with no fixed form or any beginning and end, either spatially or in time. | Imagine a life more light and imagine it to be constructed more mobile, flexible, portable, organic and more related to our natural surroundings and the elements, and that we can create our homes or shelters wherever our heart is with no fixed form or any beginning and end, either spatially or in time. | ||
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- | And I wonder can we construct our worlds from the lightest quality surrounding us everywhere: –air-. | ||
- | Air's once palpable presence in contemporary architecture has become largely invisible. Our architecture is often asphyxiating its inhabitants, | ||
The Renaissance embodied the idea of air or better ‘pneuma’ [wind, air, breath, spirit and soul] in their art of building. One of the primary goals of renaissance architects was to enhance the powers of pneuma so as to foster the art of well-being, essence, wind and ventilation were core principles of classical buildings. Pneuma was a wonderful link for establishing harmony between the human body, architecture and the cosmos, and that building was envisioned as a mediator between the inhabitant' | The Renaissance embodied the idea of air or better ‘pneuma’ [wind, air, breath, spirit and soul] in their art of building. One of the primary goals of renaissance architects was to enhance the powers of pneuma so as to foster the art of well-being, essence, wind and ventilation were core principles of classical buildings. Pneuma was a wonderful link for establishing harmony between the human body, architecture and the cosmos, and that building was envisioned as a mediator between the inhabitant' | ||
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- | Inflatable architecture is simply constructed | + | And in wondering if we can construct our worlds |
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- | //We imagine that one has to be an expert to create these objects, with a few marks of the pencil, worked out laboriously at the computer. But to respect the individual who is not an expert precisely for his lack of expertise. | + | //We imagine that one has to be an expert to create these objects, with a few marks of the pencil, worked out laboriously at the computer. But to respect the individual who is not an expert precisely for his lack of expertise. |
The danger is that experts can’t do that anymore, because he’s already learned how things ought to be done, unless he gives up his own ideas and opinions. Everything that is inept, wayward, intuitive, instinctive and emotional, and emerges from ourselves- that is the expertise of the non-expert. Only a great army of ‘non’ specialists’ can give us a proper revolution. Once the individual can go his own way, free of rules and regulations, | The danger is that experts can’t do that anymore, because he’s already learned how things ought to be done, unless he gives up his own ideas and opinions. Everything that is inept, wayward, intuitive, instinctive and emotional, and emerges from ourselves- that is the expertise of the non-expert. Only a great army of ‘non’ specialists’ can give us a proper revolution. Once the individual can go his own way, free of rules and regulations, | ||
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but you can set your goal for 20 years, just define where you wanna go.\\ | but you can set your goal for 20 years, just define where you wanna go.\\ | ||
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* Flying Lightness, Adriaan Beukers - Ed van Hinte, 2005, ISBN 90-6450-538-1 | * Flying Lightness, Adriaan Beukers - Ed van Hinte, 2005, ISBN 90-6450-538-1 | ||
* [[The Eyes of the Skin]], Juhani Pallasmaa, 2005, ISBN 0470015780 | * [[The Eyes of the Skin]], Juhani Pallasmaa, 2005, ISBN 0470015780 | ||
- | * Nature Culture Fusion-Louis G. Le Roy, 2002 ISBN 90-5662-278-1. | + | * Nature Culture Fusion-Louis, G. Le Roy, 2002 ISBN 90-5662-278-1. |
* Leven op ’t hof, Gerard smallegange, | * Leven op ’t hof, Gerard smallegange, | ||
+ | * Form Defining Strategies, Markus Hudert | ||