INSTANT AARHUSInflatable architecture

THE PRE-WORKSHOP

T R I A N G L E S T R U C T U R E

The first tests

Our first meet with the inflati-ble architecture involved seing the plastic come alive and ex-perimenting with/rehearsing folding tecnicues.Our group wanted to try and create a shape from standard-ized fragments. We chose isos-celes 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 com-plex shapes.

I N V E R T E D P U P P E T

How does it relate to the body?

Changing and controlling your own space like a puppet mas-ter. 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 experi-ence 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 mod-ules to be able to always add on to a structure, create dif-ferent shapes and dynamic/changeable spaces. We liked the pointy pyramid shape be-cause of the contrast between the static pointy and the or-ganic soft pulled-in. We chose to develop our first model to see how the triangles react to a shift of scales.

I N S T A N T C I T Y

Instant IbizaNeighbourhood 19-20

On this task we were supposed to build a 1:8 model of the In-stant Ibiza City. We studied the site plan and arial photo to get an overview of our neigh-bourhoods whole composition and different parts. It consist-ed of 24 pieces divided into three basic shapes; cube, cylin-der and ingloo.

Instead of producing a big number of similars, we decid-ed 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 dy-namic 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, acceler-ate the process and intensify the feeling of walls and roof (in one) growing and de-creasing 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 interac-tion between the human body and the con-struction while passing trough.

This is a devel-opement of the “inverted puppet” we made in the pre-workshop. 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 com-municate 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. Mak-ing 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.

T H E K I D E N Y S T O N EThis creation, the “Kidney stone”, fastenes in the walls of Main Street and blocks free. Interaction with plas-tic 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, Hilde-gunn Grønningsæter & Maria Stenvaag Jeppesen.