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 OASIS Nr.7: Haus_Rucker_Co, documenta 5, Kassel 1972\\ OASIS Nr.7: Haus_Rucker_Co, documenta 5, Kassel 1972\\
 This contribution was produced in response to an invitation to the Documenta 5 in Kassel: a transparent sphere with a diameter of 8 metres was placed in front of the main facade of the Friedericianum. A catwalk made of standard tubular steel sections projected through a window from the interior of the building. A tubular steel ring was fixed to this footbridge, at a slight distance from the façade. This ring formed the external support for a PVC foil shell that formed a sphere when inflated into shape by an air pump. Internally it was the connecting element for a short tunnel made of the same material that had large zips at either end and thus functioned as a kind of airlock. This contribution was produced in response to an invitation to the Documenta 5 in Kassel: a transparent sphere with a diameter of 8 metres was placed in front of the main facade of the Friedericianum. A catwalk made of standard tubular steel sections projected through a window from the interior of the building. A tubular steel ring was fixed to this footbridge, at a slight distance from the façade. This ring formed the external support for a PVC foil shell that formed a sphere when inflated into shape by an air pump. Internally it was the connecting element for a short tunnel made of the same material that had large zips at either end and thus functioned as a kind of airlock.
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 +Walter W. Bird, “Radome” on the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory Grounds in Buffalo, NY, (1948) 
 +Bird himself, demonstrates the stability of the air supported 16.5 mter diameter shell by standing on his “Radome”.\ 
 +In 1946 the U.S. Airforce sought a solution to shelter their early warning RADAR antennas.They required a portable structure that would prevent the antennas from environmental elements that would disturp the signal as wind, rain, water, and be transparant to RADAR energy. The first air supported structure was the Cornell Aeronautical Laborratory. 
 +http://rudygodinez.tumblr.com/post/80003877985/walter-w-bird-radome-on-the-cornell-aeronautical-laborat
  
  
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