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#1 03-07-2006 18:32:52
- David Inden
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Submission Bugel Hajema: Kite-surfing on the roof
Bugel Hajema team-members: Jan Clots and Rikus Siebring
COAR makes up a 2nd city above the present city. Its existence is made possible by the existing and cannot be dissociated from it. It holds a completely different position however: further from the ground, closer to the sky and therefore acting as an intermediary between the city and the clouds; an aspect missing for instance in the Lighthouses.
Just like a kite…
A kite moves between earth and sky. The kite rope establishes the relation with the ground while the relation with the sky is established by wind and sun. Both elements are equally important. In a sense a kite has got something to do with the roof landscape (see photograph of Commander Cody in his workshop or a more introvert traditional Japanese kite builder). If we would consider the kite as a metaphor for the hardware, the kite builders’ workshop could be considered as the software!
The hardware acts as a borderline between two spaces on the city roof: a space underneath the hardware, related to the city and a space above the hardware, related to the sky. The hardware protects the lower space against the wind and the sun (building scene), while on the contrary the upper space can take advantage of these elements (demonstrating scene). The used materials will regulate the level of protection (open, closed, transparent, colored, coated, etc.).
http://www.cityonaroof.net/dwnl/de_vlieger.jpg
http://www.cityonaroof.net/dwnl/commander_cody.jpg
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#2 04-07-2006 13:05:40
- David Inden
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#3 04-07-2006 14:38:15
- chris moller
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Re: Submission Bugel Hajema: Kite-surfing on the roof
this is looking very interesting - nice diagrams, and good references... it seems we now have at least 3 very different experimental approaches to the question of hardware technique.... Team 1 inflatable structures, Team 4 spaceframe structures, Team 5 kite structures - I also find the seemless relationship between hardware and software perfect in this case...
The challenge will be in the architecture of the axons between different neurons and your own neuron prototype. (ie will it continue to use kite structures or will it start to blur/morph/hybridize ?
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#4 04-07-2006 14:46:45
- chris moller
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Re: Submission Bugel Hajema: Kite-surfing on the roof
PS .. have a look at some of Peter Lynn's large scale kites http://www.peterlynnkites.co.nz/
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#5 05-07-2006 14:29:06
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Re: Submission Bugel Hajema: Kite-surfing on the roof
we don't know how the structure will react on the other neurons. it depends on the other software/hardware and the things that flourish on the roof.... by the way thanks for the peter lynn's link. another interesting kitebuilder is tal streeter!!
[url]http://www.windart.subvision.net/aca-windart/pool/230x345.htm
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#6 12-07-2006 09:51:02
- Renske Vera de Kam
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Re: Submission Bugel Hajema: Kite-surfing on the roof
some thoughts on living on a rooftop and kites.
1. A feeling of freedom and slight superiority: you are elevated high above the daily rummage going on at ground level.
2. A feeling of belonging to a special community: the people who live in the sky.
3. An ivory tower.
4. A contradiction: the feeling of freedom whilst being in (on) something which is actually extremely confined; if you cross it’s borders you will die.
5. An emballical chord. We can never be completely free from our ‘hosts’, aka. the people we live on. Which brings us back to the kite, it’s only working with the ropes attached.
6. A doom-scenario: roof-communities with a lot of fences (safety!) will fight eachother over the last pieces of visible sky whilst depriving the poor earth-people of fresh air and sunlight.
All right, back to the happy thoughts: kites.
A kite tends to associate with childhood and, unfortunately, with the letter-to-my-mum song from Andre Hazes I can’t get out of my head. But that’s the wrong type of kite for a rooftop construction.
Kites are light, fragile, clever, elegant and alive.
Kites react on wind. That sounds more like something for a rooftop construction.
Renske Vera de Kam
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#7 12-07-2006 22:26:24
Re: Submission Bugel Hajema: Kite-surfing on the roof
Very ingenuous and promising considering the double use of this roof and the idea of architecture with a minimum of use of groundspace.
3 questions:
1 Do you have any ideas about solar energy in this construction? :pts pf p[tions. If you are interested we could bring you into contact with some experts.
2 is this realy a good shelter, for I expect the kite to need much hight and will move arround a lot. Quiet an engineering challenge to stabelise this roof at a usefull hight.
3 what is the connection / difference with the prposal of team 1?
PS saw a table float on magnetism in the newspaper lately. Can not find it anymore. Anybody? Maybe magnetism will do as well as air to keep up the roof. If trains can do it ...
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#8 21-07-2006 16:11:12
- David Inden
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Re: Submission Bugel Hajema: Kite-surfing on the roof
The following was sent in by Rikys Siebring:
Hardware design 1:
Hardware design 2:
when the work is done
or there is a need for reflection,
the kitebuilder is leaving the city’s roof for a while.
high in the sky he is alone with the wind, the sun, his thoughts,
bringing him new ideas.
back on the roof there will be inspiration
for another colourfull festival of flying objects.
making connections between earth and sky.
Latest DO-structure images:
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#9 05-08-2006 16:53:43
- David Inden
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Re: Submission Bugel Hajema: Kite-surfing on the roof
DO: Software-part (by Renske)
Team 5. Software.
- a description of the software function:
A place of quiet contemplation. In touch with the elements, excluding the wet variety. Not meant to work or live in, but the exact opposite: do nothing. Or maybe built a kite…
- a description of the way the hardware meets the requirements of software:
requirements will be met, if placed with it’s ‘backside’ towards the roof and the possibility of a view. The object is waterproof but the wind and sun have maximum play.
- a rough list of the 'software' materials/machines: 2 mp3 players + headphones.
- how you are planning to get these cheap/costless materials/machines:
Pavlov?
- the part we can play in transporting them/ organise you getting it: Thuur?
- what budget you need for specific thinks that are not for free:
I can imagine that I will have to add some ‘sitting-comfort’, I can built that from anything, the only thing that is hard to find for free is soft material. 50 euro will be enough, though.
- which team members will participate in the software: Renske
- explain how all this will interact with your neighbours (as short and realistic as possible): it will not, because that’s the point of it. It does offer a place ‘to get away from it all’ to anyone who needs it.
With kind regards, Renske
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#10 05-08-2006 18:23:57
- chris moller
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wonderful guys.... this is a truely inspiring prototype.... a kite dwelling, to contemplate the sky. It has magical qualities... by the way i don't agree with your denial of engagement with others... the architecture already suggests a wonderful response to this.... contemplatation happens above in the lying down quarters for contemplating the sky... as Renske says the place to get away from it all.... but engagement with other teams can so easily happen through 'axon' extension on the ground in the standing up part - which it appears to me is also the place to make kites - and that would be brilliant - you could launch them from a sky window in the roof !
I 'm really looking forward to seeing this project realised - greetings Chris
PS the colours are beautiful !
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#11 06-08-2006 11:01:57
- Renske Vera de Kam
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Re: Submission Bugel Hajema: Kite-surfing on the roof
Allright, I am not as grumpy as I may appear, as long as I am left alone when I'm floating in the sky, I might consider some interaction at 'groundlevel'....
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#12 06-08-2006 11:05:39
- Renske Vera de Kam
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Re: Submission Bugel Hajema: Kite-surfing on the roof
Oh .. and anyone who has a good description of how to built a kite, preferable with drawings, please sent them to me. (renske_vera@hotmail.com)
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