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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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| - | ====Aim==== | ||
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| - | ***A Visual Collection of -Inflatble Structures-** | ||
| - | There a some books which give an overview off all kinds of inflatables, | ||
| - | ***Christopher Alexander' | ||
| - | Chistopher Alexander has unraveled in 1977 a pattern language to create ' | ||
| - | *** 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’ | ||
| - | ====Methods==== | ||
| - | - 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. | ||
| - | - 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. | ||
| - | -For making a specific pattern language for -inflatable architectural structures- I based it on the Architects of Air’s (UK) inflatable -Luminarium-. The Architects of Air are specicialized in making inflatable libarinths, every year deepening their patterns, and in general people see their spaces as a real experience. I assisted | ||
| - | - Design considerations for inflatable structures: 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. | ||
| - | - For the collection of physical materials suited for inflatables for foam's public library - I asked experts which I interviewed, | ||
| - | - A collection of innovative inflatable experts, labs etc. I have listed them at [[Inflatable Structures]] a page already existing at Foams libarynth. Most of them I came across during making the -Alive Inflatable- visual survey and for the rest I collected them from my own archieve, the most interesed ones I asked to send brochures so to put in Foam Library. | ||
| - | ====Results==== | ||
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| - | visual survey of -alive inflatables- , | ||
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| - | Christopher Alexanders timeless way of building | ||
| - | a pattern language for inflatable architectural 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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