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| ==== Inflatable Inspirations research report ==== | ==== Inflatable Inspirations - research report Cocky Eek ==== |
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| by [[Cocky Eek]] | by [[Cocky Eek]] |
| Real: 'levitating': 'off the ground' & 'out of this world'. –> from extreme sports to extreme arts, (sometimes) defying the laws of physics. experiments in wind tunnels and zero-gravity, under-water and hanging from cliff-tops. have the arts become too tame and too self centered? has everything already been experienced? can arts still provide excitement and surprise as they used to when they were more in tune with what society experienced in everyday life? What games to we want to play in a world of mixed realities? (small performances and public interventions, expeditions and playgrounds) | Real: 'levitating': 'off the ground' & 'out of this world'. –> from extreme sports to extreme arts, (sometimes) defying the laws of physics. experiments in wind tunnels and zero-gravity, under-water and hanging from cliff-tops. have the arts become too tame and too self centered? has everything already been experienced? can arts still provide excitement and surprise as they used to when they were more in tune with what society experienced in everyday life? What games to we want to play in a world of mixed realities? (small performances and public interventions, expeditions and playgrounds) |
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| while working on this research, I have scanned three design principles 1. sustainability 2. playfulness and 3. modularity | While working on this research, I have scanned and will discuss in the end three design principles 1. sustainability 2. playfulness and 3. modularity |
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| Lightness as a state of being; | Lightness as a state of being; |
| * Modern architectural theory and critique have a strong tendency to regard space as an immaterial object delineated by material surfaces, instead of understanding space in terms of dynamic interactions and interrelations. | * Modern architectural theory and critique have a strong tendency to regard space as an immaterial object delineated by material surfaces, instead of understanding space in terms of dynamic interactions and interrelations. |
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| The experience of home is structured by distinct activities – cooking, eating, socializing, reading, storing, sleeping, intimate acts- not by visual impacts. Architecture initiates, directs and organizes behavior and movements. Consequently basic architecture experiences have a verb form rather than being nouns. Authentic architectural experiences consist then, for instance, of approaching or confronting a building, rather than the formal apprehension of a facade, of the act of entering and not simple the visual design of the door; of looking in or out through a window, rather than the window itself as a material object. [reference to :There is a Timeless Way of Building- patterns of events] | The experience of home is structured by distinct activities – cooking, eating, socializing, reading, storing, sleeping, intimate acts- not by visual impacts. Architecture initiates, directs and organizes behaviour and movements. Consequently basic architecture experiences have a verb form rather than being nouns. Authentic architectural experiences consist then, for instance, of approaching or confronting a building, rather than the formal apprehension of a facade, of the act of entering and not simple the visual design of the door; of looking in or out through a window, rather than the window itself as a material object. [reference to :There is a Timeless Way of Building- patterns of events] |
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| ====Aim==== | ====Aim==== |
| * To describe how an inflatable (on body and architectural scale) can be made -alive- and be an syneasthetic experience. | * To describe how an inflatable (on body and architectural scale) can be made -alive- and be an syneasthetic experience. |
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| * research how to tackle the material waste we produce in the field of inflatables | * How to tackle the material waste we produce in the field of inflatables |
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| * To make a collection of physical materials/ samples for Foam's library in Brussel which includes innovative, tactile, environment friendly, inflatable materials, [par example; alternatives for pvc's and materials which don't adapte smells, semitransparants, selfhealing, etc] | * To make a collection of physical materials/ samples for Foam's library in Brussel which includes innovative, tactile, environment friendly, inflatable materials, [par example; alternatives for pvc's and materials which don't adapte smells, semitransparants, selfhealing, etc] |
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