Inflatable Buildings

Axel Thallemer, head of corporate design at Festo, sees membranes and air as the sixth construction material.

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December 7, 2002, 7:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen


"Are we ready to live like modern nomads, with ultra-advanced homes that pack up and travel with us wherever we go? For towns that spring up and vanish when they are no longer needed, or spacecraft that could be any shape you wanted. Axel Thallemer certainly is. His big idea is to build real inflatable buildings that are as far removed from the blow-up jokey plastic world of the 1960s as you can imagine. And at Festo, where he is head of corporate design, they already have eight years of experience in building working prototypes that are among the most advanced in the world - and the only ones based on close observation of nature."

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