FoAM - tension

Vlaamse Overheid

maja — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:24:36 +0000

balloon

lina — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:21:59 +0000

inflatable_room

lina — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:21:35 +0000

inflatable

lina — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:21:24 +0000

inflatable

lina — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:21:09 +0000

inflatable

lina — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:20:57 +0000

tornado_room

lina — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:36:36 +0000

inflatable_meetingroom

lina — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:36:34 +0000

pouder_bomb

lina — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:36:23 +0000

inflatable_tensile

lina — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:36:21 +0000

inflatable_mesh

lina — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:36:18 +0000

inflatable_polygon

lina — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:36:15 +0000

vaccuum_space

lina — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:06:52 +0000

f0amfr0th07: inflatable meeting room

nik — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:14:24 +0000

Start: 2004-12-04 02:00 Europe/Brussels

From the pneumatic turmoil of the tension workshop a shiny airtight meeting room suited for anyone from ordinary folks to inflated executives, is part of a show at Looking Glass. The silvery plastic film houses the bodies and heads of three people at a time for an intimate meeting in the shared chamber. This triangular starfish evolved out of the experiments of Linda Karlsson. Her inflated costumes started to swallow-up more and more people, duos and eventually trios.

She builds and presents it together with the FoAM team for trios from the audience to form different constellations for meeting in this contraption. Next to this a selection of beverages was available from containers within the exhibition space via translucent tubes carrying it across the boundary of glass to the outside world of the Rue Dansaert. Along this street pass some eccentric people, but just wait until you hang some tubes from the front of a building for people to suck various liquids and you will truly meet some outlandish individuals.

tension

nik — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:02:51 +0000

Self-sustaining, lightweight structures for temporary, mobile and wearable architectures.

Surface tension, tensegrity, bends, twists, knots, inflation, elasticity; all of these phenomena play with physical forces to create structures that are lighter, more mobile and adaptive than conventional brick-and-mortar buildings. How are these structures designed and used by artists and designers? What situations and environments can we envisage, when our shelters and clothing can morph from one to the other and back again? How do we make architecture more resilient, yet less rigid? What traditional crafts and what new materials can we combine to make our living spaces into self-sustaining organisms?