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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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| - | ====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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| [reference to :There is a Timeless Way of Building- patterns of events]\\ | [reference to :There is a Timeless Way of Building- patterns of events]\\ | ||
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| ***A Visual Collection of -Inflatble Structures-** | ***A Visual Collection of -Inflatble Structures-** | ||
| There a some books which give an overview off all kinds of inflatables, | There a some books which give an overview off all kinds of inflatables, | ||
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| *** A pattern language for -living inflatables** | *** A pattern language for -living inflatables** | ||
| After studying Alexanders work I like to make a specific pattern language for -inflatable architectural structures- in such a way that everybody can use these patterns as a guideline to create one’s own ‘living inflatables’ | After studying Alexanders work I like to make a specific pattern language for -inflatable architectural structures- in such a way that everybody can use these patterns as a guideline to create one’s own ‘living inflatables’ | ||
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| - | - 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 out of curiousity I was eager to give explanations by all the pictures. I gave the visual survey the name - Alive Inflatables- for them I searched in books, the internet, my own picture archive, and I asked collegues and experts. | + | - 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 out of curiousity I was eager to give explanations by all the pictures. I gave the visual survey the name - Inflatable Inspirations- for them I searched in books, the internet, my own picture archive, and I asked collegues and experts. |
| - I wrote two books of Christopher Alexander: The timeless way of building and Pattern language. First I made a long summary and later I summarized it to the size that I tink general people are still willing to read this and they can using it as a tool. | - I wrote two books of Christopher Alexander: The timeless way of building and Pattern language. First I made a long summary and later I summarized it to the size that I tink general people are still willing to read this and they can using it as a tool. | ||
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| + | * visual survey of -Inflatable Inspirations- , I came to a collection of 15 sections with interesting qualities. Each section by far don't give a complete overview in its field. But the main criteria for selecting the works is that they are in one way or another inspiring and that they all can lead to new vibrations… Images of Inflatable Inspirations: | ||
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| + | * summary Christopher Alexanders timeless way of building found underneth with the title "There is a timeless way of building" | ||
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| + | * a pattern language for inflatable architectural structures | ||
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| + | * design considerations for inflatable structures | ||
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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 found at [[Inflatable Structures]] | ||
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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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| * 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, | * 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. | ||
| - 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. | - 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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| - 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. | - 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. | ||
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| * Nature Culture Fusion-Louis, | * Nature Culture Fusion-Louis, | ||
| * Leven op ’t hof, Gerard smallegange, | * Leven op ’t hof, Gerard smallegange, | ||
| - | * Form Defining Strategies, Markus Hudert | + | |
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