- Categorías:
- Arquitectura y urbanismo
AIR ARCHITECTURE
Course Dates: 1 to 12 July 2024
Course Venue: School of Architecture
Contact Hours: 80
Course Directors: Isabel Collado & Ignacio Peydro
Following the inflatable tradition initiated by groups and individuals such as Walter Bird, Victor Lundy, Frei Otto, Cedric Price, AJS-Aerolande or Archigram we are interested in the space generation capacity that enclosed gas has as an alternative tectonic for architectural creation. Our proposal for 2024 UPM International Summer School converges upon the possibilities contained in Air structures and artifacts to enable alternative ways of social interaction and urban activation.
While urbanity is typically defined by hard and heavy matter placed in space, the activation of that space depends just on the contingency it contains; on the events that happen inside. Our aim is to activate ultra light material by enclosing air other gases within its boundaries. This gas can take the form of helium or heated air, which has a lower density than the atmospheric air surrounding the membrane. This physical principle will make the structure float in the air, providing a new space between the ground and itself for social interaction.
Second Dome.2016. Pneumatic structure design by DOSIS (Isabel Collado and Ignacio Peydro)
Key course takeaways:
- Understand the creation of living spaces through air or gas
- Design, research and make with “air” – or another gas – through an experimental workshop
- Develop skills in this type of tectonic production through prototyping thanks to the simplicity of production and the economy of materials
- Create a habitable human-scale structure that, perhaps, host the closing party of the UPM International Summer School 2024
- Discover new possible - unplanned - paths that emerge at the workshop
Student profile:
This course is aimed at bachelor-, master- or doctoral-level architecture, interior architecture or engineering students or future students or people from another background that are interested in this topic.
Registration deadlines:
- Early bird registration: 29 February 2024 (USE CODE: SUMMEREB24)
- Regular registration: 19 April 2024
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