| Topic for open discussion: Aerotecture
Note: We use the term "aerotecture" for architecture held lifted in the atmosphere by kite systems; this is aisde from the realm of wind turbines on grounded buildings.
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| Aug. 19, post by Dave Santos classify flight modes topologically, We can now classify flight modes topologically, with mode-state transitions as dynamical topological surgeries. An airplane can start tied down on an airport apron and end up in the sky, FF, then tie-down somewhere new far away. An airport is semi-self-organized topological assembly of aircraft and land. Here is another FF case, of airborne lattice self-assembly and disassembly: FFAWEassemblySurgery Image-set tease
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| August 19, 2020, post by Dave Santos Aerotecture Note Tassos, The other email circle was oriented toward energy lattices. There is also the Aerotecture side of the technology to keep in mind, as you review the methods. The enabling breakthrough is that we know how to keep kite structures up in calm by "reverse-pumping" in back-and-forth and circular-towing motions. After all, a child can fly a kite simply by running with it. We'll find the links and past references for aerotecture. Its basically the same core thing as AWE, just as a house and power plant are both architectural. Expect a large group message soon, in a broader AWE community scope, Let us know if you have any particular direction to take your thoughts, and we will supply what domain content there may be, but things are so early, you can already be thinking at the frontier of it all. We presume the architectural lens is your primary starting point. At its grandest, we can go beyond Soleri's Arcologies on stilts and Herron's Walking City, to a fully airborne civilization that can let the surface rewild back toward promordial glory. AWE/Aerotecture is also a potential geoengineering basis for remediating climate change, and every sort of civil-engineering challenge. We can directly reverse-pump hydropower, dredge seawalls, shade cities, anything one can think of. Attached images suggest aerotecture. Radial-Tow-Multi-r.jpg aerotect_plan.jpg airship-rat.jpg lta_shanty.jpg mothra2_scale_study.jpg mothra_derivative.jpg mothra_derivative2.jpg dave [Ed: The Walking City - (Archigram + Tarantino) ] |
| July 8, 2020, post by Dave Santos Aerotecture Progress Cool hack of using a standard PG wing (probably tandem load rated) innovatively. Hopefully a taste of things to come; large populations can live like this- |
| June 25, 2020, post by Dave Santos r>1
multiline topologies that kill inside a compact footprint are going to
be most-favored around populations. Most dangerous are the single-line
AWES architectures that can breakaway, to either glide a long distance
and crash, or sustain flight indefinitely by destructively dragging
tether. This particular 3r advantage was overlooked in your
foundational paper.
Who
predicted modern aviation, which also started with kite tech, would
become safer than an average bathtub, and now anyone can drink, dine,
and sleep comfortably in the lower stratosphere, at Mach .8, operating
over populations? I am confident people can someday choose to live in vast AWES formations that safely operate permanently over cities. Principle 3r is
a key to create that
future.
3r
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