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- | ====Context==== | ||
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- | * a visual survey of -alive inflatables- ,\\ | + | |
- | * writings trying to distincts what makes an inflatable -alive- | + | |
- | * a collection of physical materials suited for inflatables for foam's public library\\ | + | |
- | * a collection of innovative inflatable experts, labs etc.\\ | + | |
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- | The first thing it does is putting a heavy load on us. It rather paralyzes us. | ||
- | -The second design principle palyfullness, | ||
- | -The thirt principle was modularity: | ||
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- | ====Lightness as a state of being==== | + | |
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Around our contemporary environmental questions at least one thing became clear to me and that’s that out of fear, or to build on top of our guilt, we can’t create anything. So instead I rather like to slide the heavy burden of my shoulders and choose the quality of lightness. | Around our contemporary environmental questions at least one thing became clear to me and that’s that out of fear, or to build on top of our guilt, we can’t create anything. So instead I rather like to slide the heavy burden of my shoulders and choose the quality of lightness. | ||
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And in wondering if we can construct our worlds from the lightest quality surrounding us everywhere: –air- inflatable architecture comes the closests. Its thin flexible membrane, acts as a space-defining skin is able to give shape of –air- itself allowing it to be a breathing unity with its own integrity. Its close related to its surrounding its specifically bodily and tactile by nature and its portable, mobile, and playful. | And in wondering if we can construct our worlds from the lightest quality surrounding us everywhere: –air- inflatable architecture comes the closests. Its thin flexible membrane, acts as a space-defining skin is able to give shape of –air- itself allowing it to be a breathing unity with its own integrity. Its close related to its surrounding its specifically bodily and tactile by nature and its portable, mobile, and playful. | ||
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- | =====Research topics===== | ||
- | ***A Visual Collection of -Alive Inflatables-** | ||
- | In looking for structures for inflatables as a visual survey; I became very tired quickly. | ||
- | Maybe because I came across a lot of dead stuff. So I decided to intuitively look for inflatables I just liked. And then after looking at them I found out what the quality of these inflatables was and that was that they were alive. In such a way that it are inflatable spaces you want to be emerged with, play with, be involved with | ||
- | And some of these inflatables are to simple to be true, but have an amazing opening effect on people. | ||
- | So I look for inflatable architectural structures which are alive in one way or another, where something is happening. | ||
- | the collection of Living Inflatables one can see at: ……. | ||
- | ***A pattern language for -living inflatables** | ||
- | Chistopher Alexander has unraveled in 1977a pattern language to create ' | ||
- | And I have made a specific pattern language for -inflatable architectural structures-, | ||
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- | After Coming across some problematic patterns in creating inflatables myself, and the inflatable structures of the architects of Airs’s Luminarium and some more colleagues, | + | |
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* People inside became very sleepy after a while; it´s a passive space aswell the ongoing ambient music makes you murf and maybe it was as well the dose or flow of oxygen which slows you down.\\ | * People inside became very sleepy after a while; it´s a passive space aswell the ongoing ambient music makes you murf and maybe it was as well the dose or flow of oxygen which slows you down.\\ | ||
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A single skin inflatable can become instant hot when the sun shines, or freezing cold when not. | A single skin inflatable can become instant hot when the sun shines, or freezing cold when not. | ||
For temperature regulation one can think of a double skin; where walls of air will have an isolation function and at the same time an acoustics isolation function. In this way the walls can as well become a part of the construction. The climate in these zones can be influenced artificially. | For temperature regulation one can think of a double skin; where walls of air will have an isolation function and at the same time an acoustics isolation function. In this way the walls can as well become a part of the construction. The climate in these zones can be influenced artificially. | ||
- | Heat- There is always a temperature differential - it will generally be warmer inside an inflatable than outside. | + | Heat- There is always a temperature differential - it will generally be warmer inside an inflatable than outside. |
Cold – One can use portable heaters and a layer of polyurethane foam beneath the structure. | Cold – One can use portable heaters and a layer of polyurethane foam beneath the structure. | ||
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The How to make a door for your bubble from Akairways.\\ | The How to make a door for your bubble from Akairways.\\ | ||
- | {{how_to_make_a_door.jpg?750}}{{igloo_door.jpg? | + | {{: |
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- | {{modular_parts.jpg? | + | {{modular_parts.jpg? |
leaking connecting Corridor zips from Architects of Air | leaking connecting Corridor zips from Architects of Air | ||
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===Fingers and ventialators=== | ===Fingers and ventialators=== | ||
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One can prevent children sticking their fingers in the ventilator by stitching a net | One can prevent children sticking their fingers in the ventilator by stitching a net | ||
in the pipe-hole. | in the pipe-hole. | ||
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Or even is it possible to get the natural wind streams direct inside the inflatables. | Or even is it possible to get the natural wind streams direct inside the inflatables. | ||
Windy cities with high buildings or seasides can develop spots with a constant flow of high wind-speeds. | Windy cities with high buildings or seasides can develop spots with a constant flow of high wind-speeds. | ||
- | Or work with green energy sources like: windmills, wind towers, scoops, solar power, kite set-ups etc. to generate energy for inflating. Or one can make use of self-inflating techniques where you wouldn' | + | Or work with green energy sources like: windmills, wind towers, scoops, solar power, kite set-ups etc. to generate energy for inflating. Or one can make use of self-inflating techniques where you wouldn' |
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- | ===What kind of skins do you want to inflate=== | + | |
The skin maybe the biggest organ in architecture. Its that thin fleece which keeps the integrity of a space whole. You can design different kinds of qualities for the skin: a skin which is semipermeable, | The skin maybe the biggest organ in architecture. Its that thin fleece which keeps the integrity of a space whole. You can design different kinds of qualities for the skin: a skin which is semipermeable, | ||
One can make it responsive by integration of [[subtle technologies]], | One can make it responsive by integration of [[subtle technologies]], | ||
One can look into microfibers, | One can look into microfibers, | ||
- | **Local manufactors**: | + | |
- | [[material_library]]' | + | |
- | **Fairs**: The composite fair in France (for composite sticks), TechnoTextile, | + | |
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+ | Nowadays | ||
+ | *Materio in Enschede; | ||
+ | *the Design Academy in Eindhoven, | ||
+ | *Materialsense, | ||
+ | *Materialconnexion | ||
+ | *Materia | ||
+ | *[[http:// | ||
+ | Althought you can visit them online a physical visit is worthwhile when it comes down to materials because you simply want to touch them.\\ | ||
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+ | ***Fairs**: | ||
+ | * The composite fair in France (for composite sticks), | ||
+ | * TechnoTextile, | ||
+ | * Macropak te Utrecht, | ||
+ | *[[cradle_to_cradle]] fair in Frankfurt 12-18 november 2008, with only products which are nutrients for the bio or technical cycle. Cradle to Cradle is aswell connected to materialconnexion] | ||
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- | =====references===== | ||
- | ===Books=== | + | |
- | * [[Cradle to cradle]] William McDonough & Michael Braungart, 2002, ISBN-13: 978-0-86547-8 | + | |
- | * [[The Timeless Way of Building]], Christopher Alexander, 1979, ISBN 0-19-502248-3 | + | |
- | * Een Patroontaal, | + | |
- | * Aeolian Winds and the the Spirit in renaissance Architecture, | + | |
- | * Six Memos for the Next Millenium, Italo Calvino, 1996, ISBN 9780099730514 | + | |
- | * Intelligent Skins, Michael Wigginton - Jude Harris, | + | |
- | * The Inflatable moment, Marc Dessauce, 1999, ISBN 1-56898-176-7 | + | |
- | * Where' | + | |
- | * Blow Up, Sean Topham, 2002, ISBN 3-7913-2687-2 | + | |
- | * Lightness, Adriaan Beukers - Ed van Hinte, 2001, ISBN 90-6450-334-6 | + | |
- | * Flying Lightness, Adriaan Beukers - Ed van Hinte, 2005, ISBN 90-6450-538-1 | + | |
- | * [[The Eyes of the Skin]], Juhani Pallasmaa, 2005, ISBN 0470015780 | + | |
- | * Nature Culture Fusion-Louis, | + | |
- | * Leven op ’t hof, Gerard smallegange, | + | |
- | * Form Defining Strategies, Markus Hudert | + | |
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