iAAR_team 14

INSTANT AARHUS Inflatable architecture

THE PRE-WORKSHOP

TRIANGLE STRUCTURE The first tests Our first meet with the inflatible architecture involved seing the plastic come alive and experimenting with/rehearsing folding tecnicues.

Our group wanted to try and create a shape from standardized fragments. We chose isosceles triangles and built a small star imitating model from 16 pieces. The concept is that one can continue inserting pieces from different angles, and build bigger and more complex shapes.

INVERTED

PUPPET

How does it relate to the body?

Changing and controlling your own space like a puppet master. Interior and Exterior will change with interaction of the human body and mind.

You can change the room for a different experience. You must be inside the structure to be able to “use it� and experience it. The pointy corners are unreachable/unavailable space and will perhaps make you want to pull the strings and make an enclosure. This will change the atmosphere.

The structure created from twenty similar triangles made to make standardized modules to be able to always add on to a structure, create different shapes and dynamic/ changeable spaces. We liked the pointy pyramid shape because of the contrast between the static pointy and the organic soft pulled-in. We chose to develop our first model to see how the triangles react to a shift of scales.

I N S TA N T C I T Y Instant Ibiza Neighbourhood 19-20 On this task we were supposed to build a 1:8 model of the Instant Ibiza City. We studied the site plan and arial photo to get an overview of our neighbourhoods whole composition and different parts. It consisted of 24 pieces divided into three basic shapes; cube, cylinder and ingloo.

Instead of producing a big number of similars, we decided to make fewer and more varied shapes, and introduced the pyramid. This would give us experience with different shapes and tecniques.

THE EXCURSION TO MOLS

THE INVERTED PUPPET Based on the two previous models from last week we continued constructing dynamic space from pyramids.

Last time our starshaped space offered a one-person experience, when pulling the strings attached to the tips from the inside would create an enclosure, the feeling of a shelter.

This time we wanted to investigate an oposite - the claustrophobic possibilities of “the plastic bag�. We have tried to capture the essence of an inflatible city, accelerate the process and intensify the feeling of walls and roof (in one) growing and decreasing close to your body.

The human body is forced to interact with the suroundings when walking past the area. By getting trough the ropes, the human changes the form of the construction. It forces interaction between the human body and the construction while passing trough.

This is a developement of the “inverted puppet” we made in the preworkshop. The dome is a space where you can explore the transition from a onstruction with a direction outwars to an smaller inverted construction.

We wanted that people should interac with eachother, and therefore we were playing with the tought of blocking a passageway. Here they have to communicate to let the persone passing, get trough, by inverting the pyramides of the inner construction.

This is a developement of the idea above. To get passed this area of the Main Street, you have to communicate with the person inside the inner construction. By multiply the pyramides, you get the feeling of being stuck between two pyramides if you don’t get the person in the inner construction to help you.

The wall is made out of triangulare pyramides, the pytamides must touch the floor and the roof. Making small complex triangles would not give the same effect, then the wall would be round. This way the we get the effect we wanted, and we get a better estetic design.

THE KIDENY STONE This creation, the “Kidney stone”, fastenes in the walls of Main Street and blocks free. Interaction with plastic is your key element, and here passers by depend on the guards inside the kidney stone.

The passge acts like a bodily system or syclus, like lungs filled and collapsed. In the middle of the passage one will be shut inside on both sides until the next pyramid is pulled in. The air pressure inside the stone allows only one pyramid pulled in at a time, therefore one can only be “squeezed through” by the help from the guards.

Maria Danielle Zachariassen, Eirin Bakken, Hildegunn GrønningsÌter & Maria Stenvaag Jeppesen.