Hello @camilla , thank you for your kind comment. We are a group of Argentinian artists. Camila is a dancer and choreographer, Sebastián is a musician, actor and theater director specialized in video mapping, and specialist in objects, interactivity and new media like Alejandra who is also an actress and theater director, and I am a puppeteer, theater director and cultural manager.
A while ago we are investigating about the poetic dimension of huge objects build with light materials and air. Last year we met through internet the aerocene and thanks to the generosity of @tomas and this king community. The idea of building an aerocene fascinated us to experiment a new dimension, that apart from having an extraordinary scientific, social and cultural value, we think it offers multiple poetic interpretations.
As in Argentina, it is not possible get the RIPSTOP 7D cloth, we decided to do our first test with a biodegradable plastic material very fragile of 20 microns thick bonded by transparent adhesive tape. The construction respects the plane that propose the website How to build the envelope – Aerocene. If you can see it a bit more rounded in the picture is because after a while, approximately one hour, the aerocene was losing air through some defective joints or small breaks so then we made knots in the tips to concentrate the existing air. Anyway, that form was also very interesting for us.
A detail that we consider very important at the moment of working with such a fragile material is to stick a resistant and light thread around the perimeter of the rectangle before folding, leaving the ends at the end where the rope will be placed to hold it when it rises.
Thank you for your interest. Yesterday we upload a short video and in the next days we will upload more pictures and videos to the forum.