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- | ==== Problem/Aim ==== | ||
- | Some general problem domains in contemporary architecture | ||
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The experience of home is structured by distinct activities – cooking, eating, socializing, | The experience of home is structured by distinct activities – cooking, eating, socializing, | ||
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- | *A Visual online Collection of -Inflatble Structures- giving an overview of all kinds of different techniques or structures for inflation on are used. | ||
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- | *I like to decribe how inflatables on a body and architectural size can be made alive and can become an syneasthetical experience. | ||
- | *as well usefull can be to make an overview of innovative | ||
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- | make a collection of physical materials/ samples | ||
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- | 2006: I expect to get a collection of interesting inflated objects,at the size on body or architectual scale, on line. It should be more diverse and playful than the collections that exist in some books and magazines. | + | |
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- | 2006/2007: online ideas of how to tackle the material wastes of inflatable products | + | |
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- | 2007: making an inventory of innovative inflatable- manufacturers, | + | |
- | and physical collection of catalogues | + | |
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- | 2007: a selection | + | |
====Aim==== | ====Aim==== | ||
+ | *A visual collection online of -Inflatble Structures- giving an overview of all kinds of different techniques or structures for inflation | ||
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+ | * To decribe how inflatables -on a body and architectural size- can be made -alive- and can become an syneasthetical experience. | ||
+ | *research how to handle the material waste we produce in the field of inflatables | ||
+ | * To make a collection of physical materials/ samples | ||
+ | * To make an overview of innovative | ||
- | ***A Visual Collection of -Inflatble Structures-** | ||
- | ***Christopher Alexander' | + | ==expected outcomes |
- | *** A pattern language for -living inflatables** | + | |
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+ | *2006/2007: online ideas of how to tackle the material wastes of inflatable products | ||
+ | *2007: making an inventory of innovative | ||
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- | **expected outcomes of the research** | ||
- | * 2006: I expect to get a collection of interesting inflated things on line. It should be more diverse and playful than the collections that exist in some books and magazines. | ||
- | * 2006/2007: online summaries of writings about _ living_ | ||
- | * 2006/2007: online ideas of how to tackle the material wastes of inflatable products (in progress and see ) | ||
- | * 2007: making an inventory of innovative inflatable- manufacturers, | ||
- | * 2007: a section of airtight innovative fabrics for the material library at Foam (in progress) | ||
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- | * 2006/2007 reading theories, books about syneasthetic architecture | ||
- | * 2006/2007 collecting inflatable samples of materials; by collecting cathalogues/ | ||
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- | ====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 - Inflatable Inspirations- for them I searched in books, the internet, my own picture archive, and I asked collegues and experts. | ||
- | - I read several books and from the most I made a summary on line. 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 think 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, | + | ==== Methods==== |
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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 the picture collection I found one common line: and that was that they were all 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. so I gave it the name -Inflatable Inspirations-. So in this method I came in a reveresed way back to Buckminsters quote: “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]]\\ | ||
+ | For this collectiuon searched in books, the internet, my own picture archive, and asked collegues and experts. | ||
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+ | - visited //The Dead Chamber// at the Tu Delft to experience a space where our hearing is blocked\\ | ||
+ | - visited the exhibition //In het Donker Gezien// in Velzen Noord, made by a blind couple - to experience a space where our view is blocked.\\ | ||
+ | - I participated | ||
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+ | - vistited the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichhafen. | ||
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+ | - I read several books which could give possible guidelines on how to create syneasthetical spaces on an architectural scale. From the most relevant books I made a summary on line (Timeless way of Building, Cradle to Cradle and The Eyes of the Skin) see [[Research Inflatable Literature]] . Chistopher Alexander has unraveled in 1977 a pattern language to create ' | ||
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+ | -From here I have tried to make 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 3 days in their Luminarium standing in Heemstede, a small village in Holland and it was only open for mental handicaped people. So exploring their inflatable space inside out on the field I tried to come to -an inflatable 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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+ | - I have interviewed different inflatable and light weight experts, based in the Netherland (:Rogier Houtman from Tentech, Ed van Hinte: from Building Lightness, Adriaan Beukers TU delft, Arno Pronk from TU Eindhoven, Rien de vries from Buitinck Technology). I asked them specific questions when applyable around the more problematic patterns of inflatable structures like; | ||
+ | how they regulate the temperature so it does not become instant hot when the sun shines, or freezing cold visa versa.: how they deal with toxic materials, the quality of air inside, how they design their entrance portals; what to do with dominant smells; etc. | ||
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+ | - I came across some problematic patterns in the Architects of Airs’s Luminarium which I recognized in creating inflatables myself, and some my colleagues, and at the inflatable experts I have interviewd. So I thought it's worthwhile to underline the most common obstacles one comes across in inflatable structures anyhow. When we are able to surpass these obstacles, these structures will be more stable and alive. It considers issues like; dominant odors, choosing the right materials, energy sources, climate control etc. In this part no solutions will be given to any design problem, but some suggestions will be given so now and then…I called it -Design considerations for inflatable structures- | ||
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+ | - For the collection of physical materials suited for inflatables for foam's public library - I have asked experts which I interviewed, | ||
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+ | - 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 archive, the most interested ones I asked to send brochures so to put in Foam Library. | ||
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- | - 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. | ||
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- | 2006 visited 2 inflatable experts: | ||
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- | assisted in an inflatable installation of Architects of AIR, in Heemstede, NL for 3 days and the inflatable producer visitied TenTech?. meetings reported at InflatableExperts | ||
- | 2006 red some books about syneasthetic architecture: | ||
====Results==== | ====Results==== | ||
- | | + | * A visual survey of -Inflatable Inspirations- , I came to a collection of 15 sections with specific 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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+ | * A summary Christopher Alexanders Timeless Way of Building found underneath with the title “There is a Timeless Way of Building”: | ||
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+ | * A pattern language for inflatable architectural structures: see [[Pneumatology]] | ||
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+ | * Design considerations for inflatable structures: see [[Pneumatology]] | ||
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+ | * A collection of physical materials and catalogues for inflatables for foam's public library | ||
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- | * summary Christopher Alexanders timeless way of building found underneth with the title "There is a timeless way of building" | ||
- | * a pattern language for inflatable architectural structures | ||
- | * design considerations for inflatable structures | ||
- | * a collection of physical materials suited for inflatables for foam's public library | ||
- | * an inventory of innovative inflatable- manufacturers, | ||
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==== Discussion ==== | ==== Discussion ==== | ||
+ | - I scanned during this inflatable research three design principles of gRig, and I came along thre next findings during this research: | ||
- | The visual survey | + | * // |
- | one of the sections of visual survey was so inspiring - [[Parasite Inflatables]] - which I like to progress | + | * The second design principle // |
+ | * The thirth principle was // | ||
- | ==== References ==== | + | // |
- | BOOKS: | + | - As a follow up from this research I like do realize two events where I will develop inflatable spaces solely inflated by wind. |
- | * 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 | + | - I like to keep continueing at three parts of the research; the collection of the visual Living Inflatbles, to collect inflatable materials for the Foam library; and to keep the list of interesting inflatable producers, labs, experts etc. updated. |
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+ | -It was way more difficult to find eco friendly or biodegradable materials then I thought. The Tech-Textiele | ||
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+ | - I noticed people (no matter their background) 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 see roughly three visual highlights in the collection of Inflatable Inspirations: | ||
+ | * First of there is the starts of fully controlled dirigibles, in the highlighted period of 1904- 1919. The navigational capacity of airships introduced the first airborn passenger service. Pioneers in the States and Europe start to experiment with all kinds of air ships till World War I- when air-balloons and lighter-then-air forms of transport came to be considered as outdated and ineffective. | ||
+ | * Then about 60 years later is another highlighted period lets say from 1967-1972. The times of Theo Botschuiver, | ||
+ | * The thirth highlight I see in the development of the interactive inflatables which starts in 2003- till now. It are three projects : the ALAVs (Autonomous Light Air Vessels), Usman Hague' | ||
+ | * So from here I see possibilities for new developments in [hybrid] | ||
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+ | ==== References ==== | ||
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+ | 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, | * Aeolian Winds and the the Spirit in renaissance Architecture, | ||
* Six Memos for the Next Millenium, Italo Calvino, 1996, ISBN 9780099730514 | * Six Memos for the Next Millenium, Italo Calvino, 1996, ISBN 9780099730514 | ||
* Intelligent Skins, Michael Wigginton - Jude Harris, | * Intelligent Skins, Michael Wigginton - Jude Harris, | ||
- | * Panamarenko - de retrospectieve, | ||
* The Inflatable moment, Marc Dessauce, 1999, ISBN 1-56898-176-7 | * The Inflatable moment, Marc Dessauce, 1999, ISBN 1-56898-176-7 | ||
* Where' | * Where' | ||
* Blow Up, Sean Topham, 2002, ISBN 3-7913-2687-2 | * Blow Up, Sean Topham, 2002, ISBN 3-7913-2687-2 | ||
* Lightness, Adriaan Beukers - Ed van Hinte, 2001, ISBN 90-6450-334-6 | * Lightness, Adriaan Beukers - Ed van Hinte, 2001, ISBN 90-6450-334-6 | ||
- | * The Eyes of the Skin, Juhani Pallasmaa, 2005, ISBN 0470015780 | + | * 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, | ||
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