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- | =====P N E U M A T O L O G Y===== | + | ========pneumatology======== |
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- | ====Aim==== | ||
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- | ***A Visual Collection of -Inflatble Structures-** | ||
- | ***Christopher Alexander' | ||
- | *** A pattern language for -living inflatables** | ||
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- | ====Results==== | ||
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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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- | * an inventory of innovative inflatable- manufacturers, | ||
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- | =====An Inflatable Pattern Language===== | ||
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- | Architects of Air [UK] are creating every year a new inflatable structure where people can be moved to a sense of wonder at the phenomenon of light it aims to bring a visual surprise and excitement into the everyday environment. There structures are working quite well and I | ||
- | I will describe their patterns they have deepened over the years quite distinct.\\ | ||
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- | ===Co-structors=== | ||
- | Even when an inflatable has been in situ for several weeks there is still maintained the element of surprise for those traveling to work, going shopping or to school. People walking by are drawn to discover what is within. They can see the movement of the structure caused by people walking around inside, they can see the outlines of visitors’ bodies as they lie back against the sides, they can see the regular inflation and deflation of the airlock as it swallows and disgorges groups of visitors. Once inside, visitors can enjoy the unique nature of the structure. No two visits to a structure are the same, the atmosphere inside alters according to changing weather, the changing light and the experience is also very much affected by the other visitors inside and the way that they relate to the Luminarium. The visitor’s are co-structures of the space. | ||
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- | ===Natural coloured/ | ||
- | The experience of light and colour inside is purely created by the daylight shining through the translucent parts of colored plastic - a plastic made especially for Architects of Air-. Luminescent light will add special life. | ||
- | The raindrops on the outside can be experienced on the inside through its semitransparent plastics. | ||
- | One can place an inflatable under a tree to create filtered light. Light filtering through a leafy tree is very pleasant - it lends excitement, cheerfulness, | ||
- | An object which has small scale patterns of light dancing on it is sensually pleasing, and stimulates us biologically. Some filmmakers claim the play of light upon the retina is naturally sensuous, all by itself.\\ | ||
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- | //Daylight grading down a column, The ceiling with blue luminescent stripes of 1,5 cm gives a strong luminescent effect.// | ||
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- | //Frank Lloyd Wright describes his use of the canvas roof, in the very early structures at Taliesin West: | ||
- | . . the Taliesin Fellowship (is a) desert camp on a great Arizona mesa which the boys, together with myself, are now building to work and live in during the winter-time. Many of the building units have canvas tops carried by red-wood framing resting on massive stone walls made by placing the flat desert stones into wood boxes and throwing in stones and concrete behind them. Most of the canvas frames may be opened or kept closed. . . . The canvas overhead being translucent, | ||
- | there is a very beautiful light to live and work in; I have experienced nothing like it elsewhere except in Japan somewhat, in their houses with sliding paper walls or " | ||
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- | ===Sitting alcoves=== | ||
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- | //There are ‘pods’ or ‘holes’ where you can sit dow, lie back, play and hide// | ||
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- | ===Disorienting and comforting=== | ||
- | The space is simultaneously disorienting because of its libarynth set up and at the same time its soft topological inner space provides a comfortable feeling. | ||
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- | ===Entrance transition=== | ||
- | The transition space before entering the main-entrance helps to slowly come to a different mindset. At the main entrance were two columns inflated on high pressure. Most people touched these columns before entering inside and entering the first, where one could take of their shoes, was a space still open to the outside air so | ||
- | there wasn’t a certain abruptness about suddenly stepping in, from the outside, directly to the inside…it is subtle, but enough to inhibit you. This is psychologically half way between indoors and outdoors, and makes is much easier, more simple to take each of the smaller steps that brings you into the inflatable. | ||
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- | ===Ceiling height variety=== | ||
- | The vaults helps to create the ceiling height variety of the different spaces inside. | ||
- | Low spaces are more intimate and high more formal. | ||
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- | ===Columns=== | ||
- | Columns are influencing the space around them, and then we are talking about a | ||
- | circle shaped area with a radius of about 1,5 meter. Column preferably should be a thick ones. | ||
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- | ===Different paths to walk=== | ||
- | When a space has crossing paths from different ' | ||
- | there, so it becomes a pleasant customary place to be. One can resolve the forces for | ||
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- | ===The skin=== | ||
- | Our contact with the world takes place at the boundary line of the self through specialized parts of our enveloping membrane. There is a very special beauty about inflatables. It has a softness, a suppleness, which is in harmony with wind and light and sun. It will touch all the elements more nearly than it can when it is made only with hard conventional materials. It can be used to filter very bright hot sunlight or to make total darkness, protect from wind meanwhile showing a little breeze and it can hold off a drizzle. | ||
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- | ===Portability=== | ||
- | They are build to fold away, being carried and are easily to set up. | ||
- | in combination with tensile structures [with pulling forces – in the construction] one can make strong, lightweight and portable structures. | ||
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- | ===The more problematic patterns=== | ||
- | * To me the space is too blobby round.\\ | ||
- | //[When we look at the human-power working on a space, we see that a social space should have a form in | ||
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- | best on us if a space is about rectangular. Even the strange geometry of a dome can be experienced as a | ||
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- | of 180-210 cm and rizes 13 till 20 percent of the smallest diameter of a space.]// | ||
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- | * It became very hot when its warm, or freezing when its cold. | ||
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- | * The PVC material which is especially smell-wise very dominant in its odeur and very toxic in its nature, so not io beautiful in the end. | ||
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- | * For me the fixed choice of colors was very dominant; it was impossible to put you own fantasy to the color, a blue was so blue, that it only gave its impact on you. In the areas where colors started to mingle were more interesting. | ||
- | * 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? | + | {{: |
- | ===How to extend inflatables in modular parts=== | + | ===How to extend inflatables in modular parts and watch out for fingers=== |
- | One way is to connect parts by short round corridor pipes as a space to extend and connect the pipes through waterproof zips | + | - One way is to connect parts by short round corridor pipes as a space to extend and connect the pipes through waterproof zips.\\ |
+ | - One can prevent children sticking their fingers in the ventilator by stitching a net | ||
+ | in the pipe-hole. | ||
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leaking connecting Corridor zips from Architects of Air | leaking connecting Corridor zips from Architects of Air | ||
- | ===Fingers and ventialators=== | ||
- | {{ventilator_net.jpg? | + | |
- | One can prevent children sticking their fingers in the ventilator by stitching a net | + | |
- | in the pipe-hole. | + | |
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===How to get the air in=== | ===How to get the air in=== | ||
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One can try to make a ' | One can try to make a ' | ||
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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- | * The second design principle playfullness, | ||
- | * 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, | ||
- | - 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. | ||
- | - As a follow up from this research I have like do realize two events where I will develop inflatable spaces solely inflated by wind. | ||
- | - 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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- | =====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, | ||