Essays and notes are invited toward "Living in the Sky"  solutions. Occupiable structures lifted into the sky is a centuries old art that continues to develop. The unfolding golden age of tethered aviation K3 is invitating new challenges and solutions for living in the sky.  Humans have been occupying structures that are flown by aircraft, balloons, kite systems, rockets, parachutes, hang gliders, paragliders, sailplanes, space stations, hung structures, etc. Matters of oxygen, blood circulation, g forces, motion, harnessing, warmth, water, food, medical attention, weightlessness, communications, etc. have received various amounts of study.  Duration of a "living" episode varies from seconds to months; and in K3 there is envisioned permanent living in the sky also.  The design of "homes" in the sky vary from a simple harness to huge Buckminster Fuller Cloud Nine floating city or huge space colonies.   The atmosphere of earth will increasingly be occupied by aerotecture solutions.  The free-falling nude skydiver is "at home" but very cold, so such minimal short-term "homes" are not common; rather products of aerotecture do serve and will increasingly serve ever more people for various purposes.
 

• Huang, H., Mikyska, M. et al.: 1993, Aerotecture: The Return of the Rigid Airship, Institute of Design Communications Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
• airbornewindenergy10631   Suspension Syndrome and other notes regarding aerotecture
• aerotecture        AerotectureGENERAL13000on13Nov
  • Distinguish ground-based aerotecture from airborne-architecture "aerotecture" airbornewindenergy10631
  • AA  :   airborne architecture
• Sky Cities
• The Atlantic Cities
• Buckminster Fuller Cloud Nine               wiki       
• Airborne Architecture: 12 Images of Flying French House
• energykitesystems.net/AirborneArchitecture

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