The idea of Pneumatic Architecture was discovered in the previous article about portable architecture, which is an idea I thought I would research further. The concept of Pneumatic Architecture as a form of mobile architecture could be used to enhance the current parliamentary agencies. In the following reading, these were the advantages of Pneumatic Architecture:
- speed of erection and dismantling
- lightness
- portability
- flexibility
- cheapness of materials
“They can be used in the short term to provide shelters against the weather while more conventional buildings are put up inside them. They can also be used in the construction process itself: concrete domes have been built using inflated domes as formworks”.
With the unknown possibility of how long any given agency of a ‘travelling government’ would remain in a community, a pneumatic structure could be erected and dismantled if used for a short period of time. If necessary to stay in the community for a long period of time though, a more permanent structure could be secured and then left in the location for future purposes of the public and/or government. These were the main points of interest taken from the reading, with the full text link below:
- "Three main types of pneumatics have been identified: air-inflated, air-supported and air-controlled. Because of their mode of construction, pneumatics generally consist of curved forms such as domes or half-cylinders. Their rounded forms, organic and responsive characteristics, have prompted some writers to compare them to the human body."
- "Pneumatics have been used as tents, warehouses, offices, arts centres, exhibition pavilions, greenhouses, swimming pool and stadium covers, and for various military purposes."
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