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====Aim==== | ====Aim==== | ||
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=====Research topics===== | =====Research topics===== | ||
- | ***A Visual Collection of -Alive Inflatables-** | + | ***A Visual Collection of -Inflatble Structures-** |
- | In looking for structures for inflatables as a visual survey; I became very tired quickly. | + | There a some books which give an overview off all kinds of inflatables, |
- | Maybe because I came across | + | |
- | And some of these inflatables | + | ***Christopher Alexander' |
- | So I look for inflatable architectural structures | + | Chistopher Alexander has unraveled in 1977 a pattern language |
- | the collection | + | |
+ | *** A pattern language for -living | ||
+ | After studying Alexanders work I like to make a specific pattern language | ||
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+ | ====Methods==== | ||
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+ | - In looking for structures and techniques of inflatables I searched in books, | ||
+ | asked collegues etc. | ||
- | ***A pattern language for -living inflatables** | + | - I wrote two books of Christopher |
- | Chistopher | + | |
- | And I have made a specific pattern language for -inflatable architectural structures-, | + | |
- | | + | -For making a specific pattern language |
- | After Coming across some problematic patterns in creating inflatables myself, and the inflatable structures of the architects | + | |
+ | - I came across some problematic patterns in the Architects of Airs’s Luminarium which I recognized in creating inflatables myself, and some m colleagues, and inflatable experts I interviewd. | ||
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+ | a visual survey of -alive inflatables- , | ||
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+ | writings trying to distincts what makes an inflatable -alive- | ||
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+ | a collection of physical materials suited for inflatables for foam's public library | ||
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+ | a collection of innovative inflatable experts, labs etc. | ||
+ | based on Architects of Air’s inflatable -Luminarium-. | ||
+ | Design considerations for inflatable structures | ||
===== There is a Timeless Way of Building ===== | ===== There is a Timeless Way of Building ===== | ||
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- | The word itself is putting a heavy load on our shoulders, and conventionaly it focusses on what not to do. It can paralyze us, or pushes our guild buttons; we must shrink our presence, our systems, our activities. So it stops our creativity. But we are part of nature to! Something sustains itself, when its made with real care and when its patterns are deeply connected to ones own experiences then we like to look after it. Sustainability also recalls the idea of preserving, but one has to keep in perspective that all stuff is build to die. So maybe what empowers us more is to think in biolife cycles. And we don’t have to be perfect right now and all these biodegradable materials are not all available now, but as long there is a direction and you can set your goal for 20 years, | ||
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- | * The second design principle // | ||
- | * The thirth principle was // | ||
- | Always ask our self how does it feel, to have a modular surrounding. | ||
- | The character arises of the old buildings | ||
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- | Nature is full of almost similar units (waves, raindrops, blades of grass-) but though the units of one kind are all alike in their broad structure, no two are ever alike in detail. | ||
- | 1. the same broad features keep recurring over and over again. | ||
- | 2. in their detail appearance these broad features are never twice the same. | ||
- | for instance: On the one hand all oak trees have the same overall shape, the same thickened twisted trunk, the same crinkled bark, the same shaped leaves, the proportions of limbs to branches of twigs. On the other hand, no two trees are quite the same. The exact combination of height and width and curvature never repeats itself; we cannot even find two leaves which are the same. | ||
- | modularity is just a concept.\\ | ||
- | //The quality of places is never twice the same, because it always takes its shape from the particular | ||
- | So an alternative is to thibk of differentiating spaces: | ||
- | It is not a process of addition, in which pre-formed parts are combined to create a whole: but a process of unfolding, like the evolution of an embryo, in which the whole precedes in parts, and actually gives birth to them, by splitting (so becoming different in the process of growth or development). Only a process of differentiation, | ||
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+ | ==== Discussion==== | ||
+ | - As I' | ||
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+ | * The second design principle playfullness, | ||
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+ | * The thirth principle was modularity. One can always ask yourself how does it feel, to have a modular surrounding. Nature is never modular. Nature is full of almost similar units (waves, raindrops, blades of grass-) but though the units of one kind are all alike in their broad structure, no two are ever alike in detail. - the same broad features keep recurring over and over again. - in their detail appearance these broad features are never twice the same. - The quality of places is never twice the same, because it always takes its shape from the particular place in which it occurs. Each part is slightly different, according to its position in the whole. Each branch of a tree has a slightly different shape, according to its position in the tree. Each leaf on the branch is given its detailed form by its position on the branch. So an alternative is to think of differentiating spaces: It is not a process of addition, in which pre-formed parts are combined to create a whole: but a process of unfolding, like the evolution of an embryo, in which the whole precedes in parts, and actually gives birth to them, by splitting (so becoming different in the process of growth or development). Only a process of differentiation, | ||
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+ | - The 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 look intuitively 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 one way or another. 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. After having an inspiring collection, all kinds of different structures unfold by themselves, and it was out of curiousity I was eager to give explanations by all the pictures. | ||
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+ | - Up to now I noticed people (no matter what their background is) react very strongly on the visual collection of the research, and yes it was the part I enjoyed doing the most. | ||
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+ | - As a follow up from this research I have like do realize two events where I will develop inflatable spaces solely inflated by wind. | ||
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+ | - I l like to continue on three parts of the research; the collections of the visual survey, the collection of inflatable materials for the library and the list of interesting inflatable producers, labs, experts etc. | ||