{"id":107775,"date":"2019-12-12T10:11:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T20:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=107775"},"modified":"2019-12-12T16:09:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T02:09:12","slug":"massive-inflatables-uh-manoa-quad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/12\/12\/massive-inflatables-uh-manoa-quad\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive inflatables take over <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa historic quad"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_36054\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AH-bloqFk88?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Massive inflatables take over 糖心Vlog官方 M\u0101noa historic quad\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Massive inflatable structures popped up in the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a>\u02bbs historic quad on December 10. Crowds filled the lawn between <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Hall and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arch.hawaii.edu\/\">Architecture Building<\/a> to get a glimpse of the \u02bbpneumatic\u02bb structures (giant inflatable spaces) designed and built by about 40 <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa second-year architecture students. The structures were made of sheets of plastic the students seamed together with soldering and clothing irons.<\/p>\n<p>Everyday household standing fans inflated the inhabitable spaces, some of which could hold about 70 people inside. The exhibit was a final project for students in Architecture 235, a second-year design studio course.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There\u2019s a lot of calculations behind the scenes where they\u2019re trying to figure out the square footage, volume, trying to anticipate how the inflatables will look when they\u2019re built,&rdquo; said architecture Professor <strong>Lance Walters<\/strong>, who teaches the course.<\/p>\n<p>The students used technical drawings, computer renderings and collages to rethink and conceptualize their displays. A total of nine structures were built by six teams.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa architecture major <strong>Pia Solis<\/strong> and her team designed a dome-like structure incorporating more intricate shapes like trapezoids, hexagons and pentagons.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We were inspired by honeycombs, so that was our inspiration for the shapes and we wanted something different rather than having rectangles and squares,&rdquo; said Solis.<\/p>\n<p>The annual project gives beginning architecture students a rare opportunity to actually build a full size, inhabitable structure that they can enter. This is the seventh year the inflatable structures were displayed on the lawn.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/manoa-architecture-pneumatic-2019.jpg\" alt=\"Pneumatic structures on the quad\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-107782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/manoa-architecture-pneumatic-2019.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/manoa-architecture-pneumatic-2019-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/manoa-architecture-pneumatic-2019-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowds filled the lawn between <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Hall and the Architecture Building to get a glimpse of the \u02bbpneumatic\u02bb structures (giant inflatable spaces) designed and built by about 40 <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa architecture students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[240,239,9],"class_list":["post-107775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-architecture","tag-school-of-architecture","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107775"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107876,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107775\/revisions\/107876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}