Floatastic

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Work: 330 Words Design Description
Balance through Buoyancy is a research project by QASTIC Labs, the result of which has been the pavilion “FLOATASTIC.” Designed and built as a temporary shade pavilion for the designer’s wedding ceremony at the Olmstead-designed Edgerton Park in New Haven, Connecticut, this prototypical rapid-deployment inflatable event structure challenges architecture’s typical relationship to gravity and the ground plane. Harnessing the physical properties of noble gases and polyvinyl chloride, this precisely-calculated fabric-based floating architecture imposes no ground loads while resiliently responding to environmental factors such as wind-speed and temperature.

The aim of this experiment has been to explore the achievement of balance through buoyancy, reversing architecture’s traditional load bearing system through the hybrid utilization of geometrically precise custom-fabricated framework, lightweight nylon mesh tethering, and a lighter-than-air envelope. Stable floatation has been made to occur through the parametric optimization of the area and height of an abstracted geometry, filled with helium. Expanding on notions of flesh and skin, the pavilion’s abstracted mass imposes on its fabric surfaces functions and effects in both tense and relaxed states. It is within this dialogue of the helium container and gravity loading that we have explored its incredible architectural and spatial manifestations, with interactions between the floating structure’s edges and its fabric veils articulating emergent complex surfaces and double curvature configurations.

This pavilion’s unique design allows for manifold functions, spatial iterations, and possible deployment sties. Accounting for environmental and microclimate fluctuations that occur with daily temperature variations, this design accommodates many buoyant conditions, while maintaining a robust dynamism. Metaphorically, the project is envisioned as a surrealistic and breathtaking imitation of jellyfish, animate in its resistance to external forces. Floating in the air rather than water, it unconsciously forces its audience to question whether they are in the sea of on the ground.

This ongoing research will continue probing variegated forms and floatation conditions, expanding this unique and exciting structural system to larger iterations such as for use as roof structures and in permanent deployments.

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This pavilion presents the implementation of dynamic structural systems, harnessing natural forces such as wind, microclimate and time. As such, its configuration possesses possibilities of movement and adaptability, which can be considered as a sample of efficient temporary structures. The dynamism embodied in the structure depends a helium container, as a suspended shape, to control implemented loads. It is within this dialogue between the helium container and the loads that we can test possible architectural and spatial effects, thus creating a real skin imposed on invisible muscles, enlivening an architectural flesh. Given this, Balance Through Buoyancy explore the possible functions and effective consequences of buoyancy achieved when.

Design & Construction: QASTIC

Designer & Team Leader: Mahdi Alibakhshian

Design and fabrication Team : Ali Sadeghian, Reza Zia, Samuel Ray Jacobson, Ahmad Jamei, Carlos Bugatti, Delara Zarrin, Lili Saliani

Design & Fabrication Consultants: Nathaniel Hadley, Mohamad Reza Mojahedi, Gregory Hurcomb

Client: Jahangir Mohamadzadeh
Exhibition Period: June 2013
Location: Edgerton Park, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Photographs: Net Martin Studio & Mahdi Alibakhshian
Qastic Address: 409 Whitney Ave, #18, New Haven, CT 06511.
Photographer: Net Martin
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source: archdaily

esigned and constructed by QASTIC Lab, ‘Balance Through Buoyancy’ is a temporary researchpavilion called “Floatastic” which was designed and built for a private client to serve as a shade pavilion for a wedding ceremony. Situated in Edgerton Park, in New Haven Connecticut (an Olmsted planned landscape), this deployable structure aims to create a floated shelter which avoids imposing any loads to the ground, which traditional structures require. Instead, it proposes a well-fabricated balloon, which is filled with Helium to raise the imposed loads of fabric veils and any possible dynamic environmental loads toward the sky. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Buoyancy is achieved through the efficient harnessing of a noble gas. The idea of ‘Flesh’ is explored through the pavilions possible functions and effects, by which an abstracted mass can impose on fabric surfaces in both relaxation and tension. It is within this dialogue of the helium container and the loads that we can test possible architectural and spatial effects, with articulation between Balloon edges and fabric veils exploring the possibilities in which the complex surface veils are relaxed or in tension in double curvature configurations. Making use of the method of reversing load bearing systems, the form of the pavilion is defined by geometrically precise formwork that is then fabricated with randomly varying edges both for the horizontal balloon and the PVC pipes on the ground to allow for varied functions at different heights, climates and locations. Since the surrounding environment and microclimate fluctuate in every 24 hours cycle, our studies found that the floating pavilion will experience many buoyant conditions which are unique however steady. Metaphorically, Floatastic envisioned to be a surrealistic and breathtaking imitation of the Jellyfish that appear alive and tries to swim against the external forces in the water. However, rather than being in the water, Floatastic questions its audiences to unconsciously know if they are floating in the sea or on the ground.
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source: decoracion2014

Estudio americano Qastic ha creado un pabellón inflable con un techo flotante sujetado por velos de tela (+ presentación de diapositivas).
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Llamado Floatastic, la estructura fue diseñada por la firma de Connecticut Qastic para una ceremonia de boda. Tenían la intención de crear un refugio temporal, sin imponer ninguna carga sobre el suelo. Un globo blanco gigante horizontal está lleno de helio. A medida que sube hacia arriba, una serie de velos de tela fijos mantener la sobrecarga inflable y parece colgar como medusas tentáculos. “La flotabilidad se logra mediante el aprovechamiento eficiente de un gas noble”, dijo Qastic.

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Los diseñadores dijeron que el pabellón flotante es el resultado de la investigación de la flotabilidad y estructuras que se realizan mediante la inversión de la posición de la carga. ” Desde el entorno y el microclima fluctúan en cada ciclo de 24 horas, los estudios encontraron que la pabellón flotante experimentará muchas condiciones boyantes que son únicas pero constante “, dijo la firma.
dezeen floatastic by qastic Floatastic Por Qastic Decoracion Aquí hay una película con la estructura que flota en el viento: Hemos ofrecido otras historias sobre estructuras inflables recientemente, incluyendo un pabellón de pop-up que se parece a una burbuja de jabón y un pabellón inflable tubular trenzado instalado en el este de Londres.
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source: peredelka

Американские молодожены правильно сделали, что обратились в архитектурную студию QASTIC Lab. Специально для их свадьбы там создали удивительный шатер Floatastic. Это в высшей степени необычное сооружение, переворачивающее привычное представление о свадебных шатрах.

В случае с Floatastiс опорам не надо держать крышу, как это обычно бывает. Крыша сама парит в воздухе, потому что наполнена гелием – и давно бы улетела, если бы ее не удерживали широкие свадебные ленты, прикрепленные к раме, лежащей на земле.
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source: arredoeconvivio

Progettato e costruito da Lab QASTIC, equilibrio attraverso galleggiamento, è un researchpavilion temporaneo chiamato “Floatastic” che è stato progettato e costruito per un cliente privato come padiglione per cerimonie. Situato a Edgerton Park, a New Haven nel Connecticut, questa struttura mira a creare un riparo fluttuante che evita carichi al suolo, che al contrario, le strutture tradizionali richiedono. In alternativa, propone un palloncino ben fabbricato, che viene riempito con elio per sollevare.. verso il cielo… i carichi imposti dei veli del tessuto e di eventuali carichi dinamici ambientali. Invertendo i sistemi portanti, la forma del padiglione è definita da cassaforma geometricamente precisa che viene poi fabbricata con bordi casualmente variabili sia per il palloncino orizzontale che per i tubi in PVC a terra per consentire funzioni variabili in altezza, e variabili per climi e luoghi. Poiché l’ambiente circostante e microclima cambiano nel ciclo di 24 ore, il padiglione galleggiante sperimenterà molte condizioni uniche ma costanti.

Metaforicamente, Floatastic è immaginato per essere un’imitazione surreale e mozzafiato della Medusa che cerca di nuotare contro le le correnti avverse.