Improv Inflat – Lucian

My approach to creating these inflatables was different for each one I made. Some had themes that continued from one to the next as I made them. But overall it was an experiment to test the limits of the material and what can be done with it.

As the first inflatable I created I wanted to test what would happen when joining two shapes together.

The idea for the second came after see what two shapes look like attached from the outside.

My third inflatable was mostly curiosity over how different joining methods create different surface structures.

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My fourth construction was a random build using leftover elements from the previous assemblies.

For my last inflatable I wanted to create a regular structure with curved edges in order to create a sharp cornered regular shape. As we had seen in class, when inflating a shape with straight edges, the inflatable tends to balloon outward and become more spherical. I wanted to create the opposite effect and retain the shape of the object as much as possible. I had originally wanted to curve the edges such that when inflated the shape ends up as a regular, even cube, but ended up cutting pointed corners instead due to lack of time.