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-=====P N E U M A T O L O G Y=====
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 [//pneumatology: from pneuma, meaning air, wind, spirit, soul//]\\
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 [reference to :There is a Timeless Way of Building- patterns of events]\\
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 //"When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful,
  I know it is wrong."     --[[Buckminster Fuller]]--//\\
-=====An Inflatable Pattern Language=====
-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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-//Architects’s of Air Luminarium, photographed in Patrick de Koning’s kite IJmuiden Beach – 2001//
-===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.
-===Natural coloured/filtered light coming in===
-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, gaiety; and we know that areas of uniform lighting create dull, uninteresting spaces.
-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 "shoji." (The Future of Architecture, London: The Architectural Press, 1953 pp. 255-56.)//
-===Sitting alcoves===
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-//There are ‘pods’ or ‘holes’ where you can sit dow, lie back, play and hide//
-===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.
-===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.
-===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.
-===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.
-===Different paths to walk===
-When a space has crossing paths from different 'rooms', it helps to generate a sense of habit
-there, so it becomes a pleasant customary place to be. One can resolve the forces for
-themselves.
-===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.
-===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.
-===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
-  between  two contrary shapes (the strong crystal/square shapes and the biological wombs spaces). It works the
-  best  on us if a space is about rectangular. Even the strange geometry of a dome can be experienced as a
- strait-jacket. An vault is an idol roof for a social space. An ideal vault for an inhabitant space starts at an hight
- of 180-210 cm and rizes 13 till 20 percent of the smallest diameter of a space.]//
-  * It became very hot when its warm, or freezing when its cold.
-  * 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.
-  * 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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-===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
-===Fingers and ventialators===
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-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===
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 One can try to make a 'symbiont'  - to use a buildings HVAC (Heating, Ventilation or Air Conditioning) system. The warm air leaving the building inflates and heats the membrane structure. [see 2e picture of how to design an airlock] or any other infrastructure that the inflatable is attached to as a source of power for inflation - instead of just plugging the blower into electricity, to inflate (parts of) the structure - in that way it is more energy efficient, but also the inflatable will change shape depending on the activity inside the building...
 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.
-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't have to use electricity to inflate something.
+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't have to use electricity to inflate something.\\
-=== What kind of materials you wanna use===
+===What kind of materials you wanna use===
 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, which determines what is in and what is out.... a skin who has a close relation with its surrounding which can adapt; get pimpels for protection against the cold or from excitement. It can change color: blue from being cold, red from being ashame or excitement, it can dry out get brown, get pocky from being polluted it can sweat, it has eyes and it can breath, and it decays nicely.
 One can make it responsive by integration of [[subtle technologies]], one can look for qualities like scales in translucency or elasticity. Some materials have to be highfrequency sealed other can be glued or just stitched. Other qualities are; non static, biodegradable, lightweight, strong, resistant to tearing, self-repairing. Toxic materials aren’t that beautiful: pvc's are very toxic like many fire-retardant materials based upon PBDE or BFR are extremely toxic, which have proven to cause development disturbances. When you’re self working with it, you can feel yourself it isn't healthy. There are plastics which contain no toxics. When a material says free of….it doesn’t mean that the replacements can be worse. So just define whats in it and if its toxic or not. (can you eat it or not).